Advisories » MGASA-2015-0065

Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 15 Feb 2015
Modification date: 15 Feb 2015
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).

The previous update for this issue in MGASA-2014-0179 failed to properly apply
the needed patch, so the package has been rebuilt to address this issue.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13214
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/15/1
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0179.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2855

SRPMS

4/core

• rsync-3.1.0-4.3.mga4