Vulnerability CVE-2014-2855
Published: 2014-04-23

Description:
The check_secret function in authenticate.c in rsync 3.1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a user name which does not exist in the secrets file.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Samba -> Rsync 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0065.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131910.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00006.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:131
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/14/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/15/1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2171-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1307230
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10551
https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync.git;a=commit;h=0dedfbce2c1b851684ba658861fe9d620636c56a
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