USN-2879-1

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / rsync

Package

Name: rsync
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/rsync@3.1.0-2ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.1.0-2ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

3.*

3.0.9-4ubuntu1

3.1.0-2

3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.1.0-2ubuntu0.2",
            "binary_name": "rsync"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-9512"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}