vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5327-1 (CVE-2019-7282): rsh vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 31, 2019
Added
Mar 16, 2022
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In NetKit through 0.17, rcp.c in the rcp client allows remote rsh servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side. This is similar to CVE-2018-20685.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-rsh-clientubuntu-upgrade-rsh-server
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