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Written by Natanael Copa on 2025-01-15 at 08:53

rsync has some really serious CVEs[1], but the 3.4.0 release with the fixes has regressions[2] that will break things for people. What to do?

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Written by Natanael Copa on 2025-01-15 at 09:02

The obvious answer is:

• add the regression to the testsuite

• fix the regression

• submit a pull request

• move on

Too bad I have meetings...

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Written by Natanael Copa on 2025-01-15 at 14:46

Someone else added a test to the test suite, good enough to help me git bisect and fix the issue.

PR submitted: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/705

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Written by achill @ FOSDEM on 2025-01-15 at 15:29

@ncopa Thanks, really kind of you

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