rsync 3.5.2 released to fix a CPU exhaustion flaw
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What happened
The rsync project has released version 3.5.2, which closes a flaw allowing a connecting client to exhaust a server's CPU with pointless checksum calculations. The release also adds an option to deprioritise large transfers so they do not starve other processes of CPU and disk resources.
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What to do
- Upgrade rsync to version 3.5.2 on systems that run it, especially servers accepting connections from clients.
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