This was indeed fixed in xenial and trusty already. Thanks for reporting. rsync (3.1.1-3ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium
* SECURITY UPDATE: incomplete fix for rsync path spoofing attack - debian/patches/CVE-2014-9512-2.diff: add parent-dir validation for --no-inc-recurse too in flist.c, generator.c. - CVE-2014-9512 -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@ubuntu.com> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:58:35 -0500 ** Changed in: rsync (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1531061 Title: Rsync path spoofing attack vulnerability To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1531061/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs