Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for rsync. This fixes a vulnerability, which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to compromise a vulnerable system.
69f4c7ee3333ad361529570116d861270afaf96ab6a9b639602352e03e3d6b09
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Secunia Network Software Inspector 2.0 (NSI) - Public Beta
13 days left of beta period.
The 1st generation of the Secunia Network Software Inspector (NSI)
has been available for corporate users for almost 1 year and its been
a tremendous success.
The 2nd generation Secunia NSI is built on the same technology as the
award winning Secunia PSI, which has already been downloaded and
installed on more than 400,000 computers world wide.
Learn more / Download (instant access):
http://secunia.com/network_software_inspector_2/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE:
Fedora update for rsync
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29856
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29856/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 7
http://secunia.com/product/15552/
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/product/16769/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for rsync. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service) or to compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA29668
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update rsync").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00247.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00237.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29668:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29668/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.
Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/
Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/
Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.
----------------------------------------------------------------------