new release 3.4.0 - critical security release
rsbecker at nexbridge.com
rsbecker at nexbridge.com
Tue Jan 14 20:16:30 UTC 2025
A new dependency was added since 3.3, alloca(), which is not portable. Is there a way around this?
Thanks,
Randall
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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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