Buffer Overflow?

Chuck Wolber chuckw at quantumlinux.com
Sun Jan 18 06:31:54 GMT 2004


Just got this from our nightly backup rsync:



overflow: flags=0x6e l1=99 l2=1952984691 
lastname=var/www/manual/mod/mod_php4/de/function.get-exte
ERROR: buffer overflow in receive_file_entry
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(238)
Command exited with non-zero status 22
real 5.15
user 1.00
sys 0.88



Rsync version information:

[root at gluon root]# rsync --version
rsync  version 2.5.4  protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, 
IPv6,              64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums



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