[Secure-testing-team] Bug#887588: rsync: CVE-2018-5764

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: rsync
Version: 3.1.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for rsync.

CVE-2018-5764[0]:
| The parse_arguments function in options.c in rsyncd in rsync before
| 3.1.3 does not prevent multiple --protect-args uses, which allows
| remote attackers to bypass an argument-sanitization protection
| mechanism.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5764
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5764
[1] https://git.samba.org/rsync.git/?p=rsync.git;a=commit;h=7706303828fcde524222babb2833864a4bd09e07

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore