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Rsync 3.4 Released Due To Multiple, Significant Security Vulnerabilities
Rsync 3.4 is out today for this widely-used utility for incrementally transferring and synchronizing files between systems
Rsync 3.4 isn't coming for delivering some grand new features and other improvements but rather warranted due to some newly-disclosed security issues. The rsync issues include a heap buffer overflow, information leak, server leaking arbitrary client files, server can make client write files outside of the destination directory via symbolic links, safe-links bypass, and a symlink race condition. The Rsync protocol number is also bumped to 32 for making it easier to check on servers being updated due to the security woes.
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