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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.14223
Category:Gain a shell remotely
Title:rsync path sanitation vulnerability
Summary:A vulnerability has been reported in rsync, which potentially can be exploited; by malicious users to read or write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system.
Description:Summary:
A vulnerability has been reported in rsync, which potentially can be exploited
by malicious users to read or write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system.

Vulnerability Insight:
An attacker, exploiting this flaw, would need network access to the TCP port.

Successful exploitation requires that the rsync daemon is *not* running chrooted.

Vulnerability Impact:
There is a flaw in this version of rsync which, due to an input validation
error, would allow a remote attacker to gain access to the remote system.

Solution:
Upgrade to rsync 2.6.3 or newer.

CVSS Score:
6.4

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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/
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak

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