Package: rsnapshot
Severity: important
Tags: security

Quoting a recent rsnapshot security advisory fully available at
http://www.rsnapshot.org/security/2005/001.html:

The copy_symlink() subroutine in rsnapshot incorrectly changes file
ownership on the files pointed to by symlinks, not on the symlinks
themselves. This would allow, under certain circumstances, an arbitrary
user to take ownership of a file on the main filesystem.

1.2.1 fixes this issue.

Cheers,
        Moritz

rsnapshot incorrectly changes file ownerships on files pointed to
through symlinks

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