[parisc-linux] rsync buffer overflow

M. Grabert xam@cs.ucc.ie
Thu Dec 4 19:42:01 MST 2003


Hi,

I'm not sure whether you are still able to use rsync to update the
parisc-linux kernel tree, but this might be important anyway:

http://rsync.samba.org/

Apparently rsync has a buffer overflow vulnerability, and there exists
an exploit for it (which was used in the attack of the Gentoo server
yesterday).

Max



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