CVE-2006-2083: Andrew Tridgell Rsync

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the receive_xattr function in the extended attributes patch (xattr.c) for rsync before 2.6.8 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted extended attributes that trigger a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Andrew Tridgell Rsync: version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; version 2.6.5 only; …

Published 2006-04-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.