Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rsync  (opens in a new tab)


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5.16% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-RSYNC-10078625
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed6 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16548  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The receive_xattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by sending crafted data to the daemon.

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