Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rsync  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-RSYNC-19231176
  • published23 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Aug 2026

Introduced: 13 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-70462  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rsync package and not the rsync package as distributed by RHEL.

rsync 3.1.0 before 3.5.0 contains a signed integer overflow vulnerability in the I/O timeout implementation that allows attackers to permanently disable connection timeouts by injecting MSG_IO_TIMEOUT messages carrying non-positive (zero or negative) values. Attackers can craft malicious MSG_IO_TIMEOUT messages that cause the timeout variable to wrap to a non-positive value, preventing the timeout check from firing and enabling idle or stalled connections to hold daemon slots indefinitely, leading to resource exhaustion.