FS#44175 - [librsync][CVE-2014-8242]MD4 collision file corruption

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Friday, 13 March 2015, 15:29 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Monday, 16 March 2015, 00:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary
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Michael Samuel discovered that rsync was vulnerable to checksum collisions. This could prevent rsync from running and syncing files successfully, which could break various applications that use and rely on rsync.

References
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8242
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/28/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/13/2
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Monday, 16 March 2015, 00:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  librsync 1.0.0-1
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Saturday, 14 March 2015, 14:30 GMT
librsync 1.0.0-1 in [community-testing].

I'll close this task once it moves to [community].

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