Advisories » MGASA-2014-0179

Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Apr 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-2855

Description

Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability:

Ryan Finnie discovered that rsync 3.1.0 contains a denial of service issue
when attempting to authenticate using a nonexistent username. A remote
attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service via CPU consumption
(CVE-2014-2855).
                

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/15/1
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13214
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2855

SRPMS

4/core

• rsync-3.1.0-4.2.mga4