GarUlbricht7netscape.net
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 16:32:59 CDT

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Kastus wrote on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 19:44:15 CEST:
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:41:23PM +0200, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
>>
>> 2) Pending vulnerabilities in SUSE Distributions and Workarounds:
>>
>> - rsync
>> rsync prior to version 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths
>> when running as read/write daemon without chroot.
>> New update packages are available on our ftp servers
>> which fix this problem.
>>
>
> This is about rsync-2.6.2-8.2, right?
>
> I've updated using YOU
> and now am not able to rsync large directories:
>
> rsync -av --delete /home/* /home.backup/
> building file list ... done
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12)
> at io.c(342)
>
> The version shipped with 9.1 works just fine with the same directories.
>
> Was this update rushed in? Any fixes?
>
> Thanks, -Kastus
>
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Hi Kastus,

IIRC, both YOU and fou4s download the patch rpms
unless you tell them otherwise.

Have you tried the "unpatched" rsync-*.rpm
which is also available from the SuSE ftp servers ???

Might be worth a try.

Hope this helps,
Gar

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