rsync announce - Jan 2025 - new release 3.4.0 - critical security release

We have just released version 3.4.0 of rsync. This release fixes 6 security
vulnerabilities found by two groups of security researchers.

You can find the new release links here:

 - https://rsync.samba.org/
 - https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/

For details on the vulnerabilities please see this CERT advisory:

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657

The various distros should be doing security releases today
Many thanks to Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman at Google
Cloud Vulnerability Research and Aleksei Gorban (Loqpa) for discovering
these vulnerabilities and working with the rsync project to develop and
test fixes.

Also many thanks to Wayne Davison for assisting with the release process as
this is the first release I've done since 2002 when Wayne took over as the
rsync maintainer.

Andrew Tridgell
rsync maintainer (again!)
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"rsync.project via rsync" <rsync at lists.samba.org> writes:
> We have just released version 3.4.0 of rsync. This release fixes 6 security
vulnerabilities found by two
> groups of security researchers.
>
> You can find the new release links here:
>
>  - https://rsync.samba.org/
>  - https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/
>
> For details on the vulnerabilities please see this CERT advisory:
>
> https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
The vulnerabilities note was only posted today; great job addressing it
so quickly

                        C. Mitrodimas
>
> The various distros should be doing security releases today
> Many thanks to Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman at Google
Cloud Vulnerability Research
> and Aleksei Gorban (Loqpa) for discovering these vulnerabilities and
working with the rsync project to
> develop and test fixes.
>
> Also many thanks to Wayne Davison for assisting with the release process as
this is the first release I've
> done since 2002 when Wayne took over as the rsync maintainer.
>
> Andrew Tridgell
> rsync maintainer (again!)

A new dependency was added since 3.3, alloca(), which is not portable. Is there
a way around this?

Thanks,

Randall

 

From: rsync <rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org> On Behalf Of rsync.project
via rsync
Sent: January 14, 2025 2:49 PM
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Subject: new release 3.4.0 - critical security release

 

We have just released version 3.4.0 of rsync. This release fixes 6 security
vulnerabilities found by two groups of security researchers.

 

You can find the new release links here:

 

 - https://rsync.samba.org/

 - https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/

 

For details on the vulnerabilities please see this CERT advisory:

 

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657

 

The various distros should be doing security releases today

Many thanks to Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman at Google
Cloud Vulnerability Research and Aleksei Gorban (Loqpa) for discovering these
vulnerabilities and working with the rsync project to develop and test fixes.

 

Also many thanks to Wayne Davison for assisting with the release process as this
is the first release I've done since 2002 when Wayne took over as the rsync
maintainer.

 

Andrew Tridgell

rsync maintainer (again!)

 

 

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