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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-131

Posted on 31 March 2015
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:131
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : rsync
Date : March 29, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem Description:

Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability:

Ryan Finnie discovered that rsync 3.1.0 contains a denial of service
issue when attempting to authenticate using a nonexistent username. A
remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service via
CPU consumption (CVE-2014-2855).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2855
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0065.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
f5668fb3bd09802d3a089155a9ff622f mbs2/x86_64/rsync-3.1.0-5.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
a6d3db7fb7c0ecf466194bbbc1b91ab5 mbs2/SRPMS/rsync-3.1.0-5.1.mbs2.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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