CVE-2004-0792 (GCVE-0-2004-0792)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-08-18 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:31
VLAI
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in the sanitize_path function in util.c for rsync 2.6.2 and earlier, when chroot is disabled, allows attackers to read or write certain files.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20040… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0042/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109268147522290&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://samba.org/rsync/#security_aug04 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109277141223839&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2004-08-12 00:00
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}



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