Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Sebastian Krahmer of SUSE discovered that rsync could overflow when handling ACLs. An attakcer could construct a malicious set of files that, when processed, could lead to arbitrary code execution or a crash (CVE-2008-1720).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected
rsync on Mandriva Linux 2007.0,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.1,
Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-1720 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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