USN-2171-1

Ryan Finnie discovered that the rsync daemon incorrectly handled invalid usernames. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause rsync to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / rsync

Package

Name: rsync
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/rsync@3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

3.*

3.0.9-4ubuntu1

3.1.0-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "rsync",
            "binary_version": "3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-2855",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2171-1.json"