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A look at the recent rsync vulnerability
On January 14, Nick Tait
<a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/CALDM2HfAOzs+zr3XLCDAKH8oOosigdaNooUANDf=Ez5mLSvQcQ@mail.gmail.com/"; rel="nofollow">
announced</a> the discovery of six vulnerabilities in
<a href="https://rsync.samba.org/"; rel="nofollow">
rsync</a>, the popular file-synchronization tool. While software vulnerabilities are
not uncommon, the
<a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12084"; rel="nofollow">
most serious one</a> he announced allows for remote code execution
on servers that run rsyncd — and possibly other configurations.
The bug itself is fairly simple, but this event provides a nice opportunity to
dig into it, show why it is so serious, and consider ways
the open-source community can prevent such mistakes in the
future.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1005302/
On January 14, Nick Tait
<a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/CALDM2HfAOzs+zr3XLCDAKH8oOosigdaNooUANDf=Ez5mLSvQcQ@mail.gmail.com/"; rel="nofollow">
announced</a> the discovery of six vulnerabilities in
<a href="https://rsync.samba.org/"; rel="nofollow">
rsync</a>, the popular file-synchronization tool. While software vulnerabilities are
not uncommon, the
<a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12084"; rel="nofollow">
most serious one</a> he announced allows for remote code execution
on servers that run rsyncd — and possibly other configurations.
The bug itself is fairly simple, but this event provides a nice opportunity to
dig into it, show why it is so serious, and consider ways
the open-source community can prevent such mistakes in the
future.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1005302/