Numeric Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rsync  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2004-RSYNC-578953
  • published23 May 2017
  • disclosed23 May 2017

Introduced: 23 May 2017

CVE-2016-9840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

inftrees.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging improper pointer arithmetic.

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