ALAS2-2022-1873

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-29154  

A flaw was found in rsync that is triggered by a victim rsync user/client connecting to a malicious rsync server. The server can copy and overwrite arbitrary files in the client's rsync target directory and subdirectories. This flaw allows a malicious server, or in some cases, another attacker who performs a man-in-the-middle attack, to potentially overwrite sensitive files on the client machine, resulting in further exploitation. (CVE-2022-29154)

ALAS2-2022-1873


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1873
Advisory Release Date: 2022-10-31 19:40 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-11-08 22:20 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2022-29154 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in rsync that is triggered by a victim rsync user/client connecting to a malicious rsync server. The server can copy and overwrite arbitrary files in the client's rsync target directory and subdirectories. This flaw allows a malicious server, or in some cases, another attacker who performs a man-in-the-middle attack, to potentially overwrite sensitive files on the client machine, resulting in further exploitation. (CVE-2022-29154)


Affected Packages:

rsync


Issue Correction:
Run yum update rsync to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    rsync-3.1.2-11.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    rsync-debuginfo-3.1.2-11.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    rsync-3.1.2-11.amzn2.0.1.i686
    rsync-debuginfo-3.1.2-11.amzn2.0.1.i686

src:
    rsync-3.1.2-11.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    rsync-3.1.2-11.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    rsync-debuginfo-3.1.2-11.amzn2.0.1.x86_64