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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51163
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2004:436
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2004:436.

The rsync program synchronizes files over a network.

Versions of rsync up to and including version 2.6.2 contain a path
sanitization issue. This issue could allow an attacker to read or write
files outside of the rsync directory. This vulnerability is only
exploitable when an rsync server is enabled and is not running within a
chroot. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2004-0792 to this issue.

Users of rsync are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
contains a backported patch and is not affected by this issue.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-436.html
http://rsync.samba.org/#security_aug04

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.4

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0792
Bugtraq: 20040816 TSSA-2004-020-ES - rsync (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109268147522290&w=2
Bugtraq: 20040817 LNSA-#2004-0017: rsync (Aug, 17 2004) (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109277141223839&w=2
Debian Security Information: DSA-538 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-538
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-17.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:083
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10561
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2004:026 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_26_rsync.html
http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0042/
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