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Critical flaw found in open source file transfer utility

Publication:The AgeDate:Dec 05 2003

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A critical vulnerability which has been reported in rsync, an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer, may have been used to compromise a server at the Gentoo Linux project.

An advisory from the rsync developers said this vulnerability was recently used in combination with a Linux kernel vulnerability to compromise the security of a public rsync server.




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