Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.50800
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2002:024 (rsync)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to rsync announced via advisory MDKSA-2002:024. Ethan Benson discovered a bug in rsync where the supplementary groups that the rsync daemon runs as (such as root) would not be removed from the server process after changing to the specified unprivileged uid and gid. This seems only serious if rsync is called using rsync --daemon from the command line where it will inherit the group of the user starting the server (usually root). Note that, by default, Mandrake Linux uses xinetd to handle connections to the rsync daemon. This was fixed upstream in version 2.5.3, as well as the previously noted zlib fixes (see MDKSA-2002:023). The authors released 2.5.4 with some additional zlib fixes, and all users are encouraged to upgrade to this new version of rsync. Affected versions: 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, Corporate Server 1.0.1, Single Network Firewall 7.2 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2002:024 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=132272 Risk factor : High
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