Fix CVE(s): CVE-2026-53785
* SECURITY UPDATE: Destination-tree escape via symlink following in --relative implied-parent handling - debian/patches/CVE-2026-53785.patch: resolve the receiver's destination names one component at a time with O_NOFOLLOW|O_DIRECTORY, acting against a directory fd that is held open, instead of handing the whole name to the kernel to resolve; a component that is a symlink is now refused rather than traversed, so nothing the receiver creates lands at the symlink's target outside the destination tree; adds secure_relative_dirfd(), do_mkdir_at(), do_stat_at(), do_open_at(), do_rename_at(), do_symlink_at(), do_mknod_at() and do_link_at() in syscall.c and routes every way the receiver creates something at a destination name through them -- make_path() in util.c, the four implied-parent sites in generator.c, the install-into-final-name renames in util.c, rsync.c, receiver.c and generator.c, copy_file()'s reopen of the destination on the cross-filesystem fallback, the symlink and mknod creations in generator.c's atomic_create(), and the --link-dest and -H hard links in generator.c and hlink.c; each of those is its own route to the destination name, reached by a different option (--temp-dir bypasses the file create entirely, --devices / --specials and a transferred symlink never touch it, and --link-dest installs a regular file's link from hlink.c but a non-regular file's from generator.c), so confining only some of them leaves the escape open; extends the existing secure_mkstemp() a
- Products
- rsync
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.1.1-3ubuntu1.3+tuxcare.els18
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-29518, CVE-2026-53785
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
* SECURITY UPDATE: Destination-tree escape via symlink following in --relative implied-parent handling - debian/patches/CVE-2026-53785.patch: resolve the receiver's destination names one component at a time with O_NOFOLLOW|O_DIRECTORY, acting against a directory fd that is held open, instead of handing the whole name to the kernel to resolve; a component that is a symlink is now refused rather than traversed, so nothing the receiver creates lands at the symlink's target outside the destination tree; adds secure_relative_dirfd(), do_mkdir_at(), do_stat_at(), do_open_at(), do_rename_at(), do_symlink_at(), do_mknod_at() and do_link_at() in syscall.c and routes every way the receiver creates something at a destination name through them -- make_path() in util.c, the four implied-parent sites in generator.c, the install-into-final-name renames in util.c, rsync.c, receiver.c and generator.c, copy_file()'s reopen of the destination on the cross-filesystem fallback, the symlink and mknod creations in generator.c's atomic_create(), and the --link-dest and -H hard links in generator.c and hlink.c; each of those is its own route to the destination name, reached by a different option (--temp-dir bypasses the file create entirely, --devices / --specials and a transferred symlink never touch it, and --link-dest installs a regular file's link from hlink.c but a non-regular file's from generator.c), so confining only some of them leaves the escape open; extends the existing secure_mkstemp() a
osv:CLSA-2026-1789745909
rsync
Fixed versions: 3.1.1-3ubuntu1.3+tuxcare.els18
Complete source record
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"summary": "* SECURITY UPDATE: Destination-tree escape via symlink following in --relative implied-parent handling - debian/patches/CVE-2026-53785.patch: resolve the receiver's destination names one component at a time with O_NOFOLLOW|O_DIRECTORY, acting against a directory fd that is held open, instead of handing the whole name to the kernel to resolve; a component that is a symlink is now refused rather than traversed, so nothing the receiver creates lands at the symlink's target outside the destination tree; adds secure_relative_dirfd(), do_mkdir_at(), do_stat_at(), do_open_at(), do_rename_at(), do_symlink_at(), do_mknod_at() and do_link_at() in syscall.c and routes every way the receiver creates something at a destination name through them -- make_path() in util.c, the four implied-parent sites in generator.c, the install-into-final-name renames in util.c, rsync.c, receiver.c and generator.c, copy_file()'s reopen of the destination on the cross-filesystem fallback, the symlink and mknod creations in generator.c's atomic_create(), and the --link-dest and -H hard links in generator.c and hlink.c; each of those is its own route to the destination name, reached by a different option (--temp-dir bypasses the file create entirely, --devices / --specials and a transferred symlink never touch it, and --link-dest installs a regular file's link from hlink.c but a non-regular file's from generator.c), so confining only some of them leaves the escape open; extends the existing secure_mkstemp() a",
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