Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-1720 First vendor Publication 2008-04-10
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Buffer overflow in rsync 2.6.9 to 3.0.1, with extended attribute (xattr) support enabled, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1720

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17462
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17462
Title: USN-600-1 -- rsync vulnerability
Description: Sebastian Krahmer discovered that rsync could overflow when handling ACLs.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-600-1
CVE-2008-1720
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10
 Product(s): rsync
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18444
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18444
Title: DSA-1545-1 rsync
Description: Sebastian Krahmer discovered that an integer overflow in rsync's code for handling extended attributes may lead to arbitrary code execution.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1545-1
CVE-2008-1720
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): rsync
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 33

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for rsync MDVSA-2008:084 (rsync)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_084.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for rsync vulnerability USN-600-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_600_1.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for rsync FEDORA-2008-3047
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3047_rsync_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for rsync FEDORA-2008-3060
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3060_rsync_fc7.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200804-16 (rsync)
File : nvt/glsa_200804_16.nasl
2008-04-21 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1545-1 (rsync)
File : nvt/deb_1545_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44368 rsync Extended Attribute (xattr) Support Unspecified Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-084.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-01 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_rsync-5207.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200804-16.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3047.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3060.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1545.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-600-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28726
CONFIRM http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/security/rsync-3.0.1-xattr-alloc.diff
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/security.html#s3_0_2
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=591462&group_id=6...
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1545
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00237.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00247.html
GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-16.xml
HP http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125017764422557&w=2
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:084
MISC http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync-announce%40lists.samba.org/msg00057.html
OSVDB http://www.osvdb.org/44368
http://www.osvdb.org/44369
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019835
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/29668
http://secunia.com/advisories/29770
http://secunia.com/advisories/29777
http://secunia.com/advisories/29781
http://secunia.com/advisories/29788
http://secunia.com/advisories/29856
http://secunia.com/advisories/29861
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/600-1/
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1191/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1215/references
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41766

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