March 6, 2023, 12:11 p.m. |

Ubuntu security notices ubuntu.com

Koen van Hove discovered that the rsync client incorrectly validated
filenames returned by servers. If a user or automated system were tricked
into connecting to a malicious server, a remote attacker could use this
issue to write arbitrary files, and possibly excalate privileges.

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