CVE-2004-0792

N/A Unknown

Published: October 20, 2004 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the sanitize_path function in util.c for rsync 2.6.2 and earlier, when chroot is disabled, allows attackers to read or write certain files.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109268147522290&w=2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109277141223839&w=2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://samba.org/rsync/#security_aug04

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-538

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-17.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:083

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_26_rsync.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0042/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10561

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109268147522290&w=2