Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2003-0048
| Package name: | rsync |
| Summary: | remote code execution |
| Date: | 2003-12-04 |
| Affected versions: | TSL 1.2, 1.5, 2.0 |
Package description:
Rsync uses a quick and reliable algorithm to very quickly bring
remote and host files into sync. Rsync is fast because it just
sends the differences in the files over the network (instead of
sending the complete files). Rsync is often used as a very powerful
mirroring process or just as a more capable replacement for the rcp
command. A technical report which describes the rsync algorithm is
included in this package.
Problem description:
All versions of rsync prior to 2.5.7 contains a heap overflow that
can be used to exceute arbitary code from remote. The Common
Vulnerabilites and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org/) has assigned the name
CAN-2003-0962 to this issue.
Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be
upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality
provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your
system.
Location:
All TSL updates are available from
<URI:http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>;
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>
About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers.
With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept
safe and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software
updater.
Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using ‘swup –upgrade’.
Public testing:
These packages have been available for public testing for some
time. If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in
the testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
<URI:http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/>;
You may also use swup for public testing of updates:
site {
class = 0
location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/rdfs/latest.rdf"
regexp = ".*"
}
Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/support/>;
Verification:
This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL
sign key. This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/TSL-SIGN-KEY>;
The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-1.2/>;,
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-1.5/>;
and <URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-2.0/>;
or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2003/TSL-2003-0048-rsync.asc.txt>;
MD5sums of the packages:
ff92f850103caec5566d3037005be1cc
./1.2/rpms/rsync-2.5.7-1tr.i586.rpm
c96460c2df73f6f28e86676f0087eed7
./1.2/srpms/rsync-2.5.7-1tr.src.rpm
24f991051c4d7dc7287770a999c91cfe
./1.5/rpms/rsync-2.5.7-1tr.i586.rpm
c96460c2df73f6f28e86676f0087eed7
./1.5/srpms/rsync-2.5.7-1tr.src.rpm
d74d3a08933b4d22439bc08cf435cec9
./2.0/rpms/rsync-2.5.7-1tr.i586.rpm
1547e73b44c4ee2df24f28b67a229666
./2.0/rpms/rsync-server-2.5.7-1tr.i586.rpm
406331367957dd7f9ddfe56dc8177580
./2.0/srpms/rsync-2.5.7-1tr.src.rpm
TSL Security Team