Executive Summary

Summary
Title rsync vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2879-1 First vendor Publication 2016-01-21
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-01-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

rsync could be made to write files outside of the expected directory.

Software Description: - rsync: fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool

Details:

It was discovered that rsync incorrectly handled invalid filenames. A malicious server could use this issue to write files outside of the intended destination directory.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10:
rsync 3.1.1-3ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 15.04:
rsync 3.1.1-3ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
rsync 3.1.0-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
rsync 3.0.9-1ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2879-1
CVE-2014-9512

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/3.1.1-3ubuntu0.15.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/3.1.1-3ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/3.1.0-2ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/3.0.9-1ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2879-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-09-02 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2151-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-29 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-1866-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-29 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-803.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-28 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-764.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-31 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201605-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-22 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2879-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-0173-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-0176-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-11 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-124.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-01-23 13:25:19
  • Multiple Updates
2016-01-21 21:27:50
  • Multiple Updates
2016-01-21 21:23:06
  • First insertion