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Ubuntu: USN-3946-1 (CVE-2019-3464): rssh vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3946-1 (CVE-2019-3464): rssh vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/02/2019
Created
04/26/2019
Added
04/24/2019
Modified
11/07/2024

Description

Insufficient sanitization of environment variables passed to rsync can bypass the restrictions imposed by rssh, a restricted shell that should restrict users to perform only rsync operations, resulting in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-rssh

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