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CVE-2026-70455 rsync 3.4.2 before 3.5.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows a remote sender to exhaust system…

Description

rsync 3.4.2 before 3.5.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows a remote sender to exhaust system resources by specifying the --zt short alias for --compress-threads, which bypasses the refuse options directive's string matching on long option names. Attackers can specify --zt=N with a large value to spawn an unbounded number of Zstandard worker threads on the receiver, exhausting available thread and memory resources.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
rsync 3.5 earliest → < 3.5.0 3.5.0
rsync 3.4 3.4.2 → 3.4.4 No fix stated

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