CVE-2006-2083 (GCVE-0-2006-2083)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-04-28 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 17:35
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the receive_xattr function in the extended attributes patch (xattr.c) for rsync before 2.6.8 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted extended attributes that trigger a buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20060… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/19920 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/19964 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1606 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17788 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2006-04-28 00:00
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.