* SECURITY UPDATE: peer-driven one-byte heap out-of-bounds write in add_implied_include() from a files-from entry carrying both an interior and a trailing backslash: - debian/patches/els/0009-CVE-2026-70461.patch: count a trailing backslash when sizing the appended-wildcard pattern. - CVE-2026-70461. * SECURITY UPDATE: heap out-of-bounds write in read_args() when the peer's argument count lands exactly on the argv allocation: - debian/patches/els/0010-CVE-2026-70456.patch: reserve room for the trailing NULL terminator. - CVE-2026-70456. * SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds write from a file entry marked FLAG_HLINKED that the receiver accepted with hard-link preservation inactive: - debian/patches/els/0011-CVE-2026-70458.patch: gate FLAG_HLINKED on preserve_hard_links and exclude directories. - CVE-2026-70458. * SECURITY UPDATE: sender-side out-of-bounds read driven by a malicious receiver's checksum header with a non-zero block count and a zero block length: - debian/patches/els/0012-CVE-2026-53792.patch: reject a zero block length in read_sum_head(). - CVE-2026-53792. * SECURITY UPDATE: CPU exhaustion in the sending process via quadratic-time behaviour in hash_search(), driven by a malicious receiver's crafted equal-weak-checksum block list. The attacker is the receiver, but the cycles burned are the sender's: hash_search() is reached only through match_sums(), whose sole caller is send_files() in sender.c. NVD's text attributes the CPU to the receiver; the direction stated here is what the code does: - debian/patches/els/0013-CVE-2026-70453.patch: bound the per-offset chain walk. - CVE-2026-70453. * SECURITY UPDATE: daemon "hosts deny" failing open when a configured hostname token cannot be resolved: - debian/patches/els/0014-CVE-2026-70452.patch: treat an unresolvable deny-list token as a match. - CVE-2026-70452. * SECURITY UPDATE: daemon "auth users" ignoring its documented comma-only parsing, silently discarding a deny rule that names a group whose name contains a space: - debian/patches/els/0015-CVE-2026-70463.patch: parse the list with conf_strtok(). - CVE-2026-70463. * SECURITY UPDATE: peer-supplied MSG_IO_TIMEOUT disabling the client's own I/O timeout through a non-positive or overflowing value: - debian/patches/els/0016-CVE-2026-70462.patch: cap the received value and make set_io_timeout() arithmetic overflow-safe. - CVE-2026-70462. * SECURITY UPDATE: client-supplied --filter merge file bypassing the daemon module filter list: - debian/patches/els/0017-CVE-2026-53786.patch: strip the module-dir prefix before the daemon-filter check. - CVE-2026-53786. * SECURITY UPDATE: per-connection daemon child crash on a crafted first incremental file list whose transfer root is a non-directory dot entry: - debian/patches/els/0018-CVE-2026-70459.patch: reject a non-directory transfer-root entry and require a dir_flist entry before trusting parent_ndx 0. - CVE-2026-70459. * SECURITY UPDATE: malicious sender widening the receiver's --delete scope beyond the destination subtree via implied-parent reclassification: - debian/patches/els/0019-CVE-2026-53789.patch: force implied-parent directories non-content on the receiver, including the synthetic transfer root and the pre-protocol-30 encoding. - CVE-2026-53789. * SECURITY UPDATE: unauthenticated pre-transfer handshake stall holding a per-connection daemon child past the module's max connections limit: - debian/patches/els/0020-CVE-2026-70464.patch: bound every peer-controlled handshake read with an absolute deadline and cap the early-protocol argument count. - CVE-2026-70464. * SECURITY UPDATE: command and argument injection through the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG %H host substitution, through unquoted arguments in a --write-batch replay script, and through remote-shell argument quoting that did not escape the newline, the carriage return or the backtick: - debian/patches/els/0021-CVE-2026-53790.patch: shell-quote and validate the connect host, and quote every replay-script argument. - debian/patches/els/0025-CVE-2026-53790-safe-arg-shell-chars.patch: add the newline, the carriage return and the backtick to safe_arg()'s SHELL_CHARS escape set. safe_arg() escapes metacharacters because the remote end is reached as "ssh rsync --server ...", where ssh joins the command words and the remote sshd hands the string to the remote user's login shell, which re-parses it; an unescaped newline therefore ended the transfer command and ran what followed, and an unescaped backtick opened a command substitution. This package acquired safe_arg() from els/0001-CVE-2022-29154.patch, whose donor predates the backtick's addition upstream. - Partial fix: the daemon %RSYNC_*% exec-hook expansions do not exist in 3.1.3 and rsync-ssl is not installed by debian/rules, so those two of the four sinks named in the advisory are not present in this package. - CVE-2026-53790. * SECURITY UPDATE: further out-of-bounds F_SUM() reads where the checksum extra slot was never reserved -- a daemon sender with "%C" in its log format, a hard-linked non-regular entry compared against a basis dir, and "%C" on a deletion: - debian/patches/els/0022-CVE-2026-70458.patch: set sender_keeps_checksum in start_server(), require S_ISREG(file->mode) before the content compare in hard_link_check(), and skip the checksum for an ITEM_DELETED entry. - CVE-2026-70458. * Drop two peer-reachable assert() aborts (no CVE assigned; carried from the same upstream commit as several of the fixes above, and live in the shipped binary because nothing in the build defines NDEBUG): - debian/patches/els/0023-peer-reachable-asserts.patch: turn an undeclared cross-flist hard-link gnum into a protocol error instead of an assert, and stop asserting !is_utf8 when a daemon receiver forwards a peer message to the generator. * Bound merge-file include recursion (no CVE assigned; the remaining peer-reachable crash hunk of the same upstream commit several of the fixes above come from). A merge file's content may name another merge file, so parse_filter_file() re-enters itself with a BIGPATHBUFLEN stack buffer per level; a self-referencing per-directory merge file, whose content the peer supplies through the transferred tree, recursed until the stack was exhausted (SIGSEGV): - debian/patches/els/0024-merge-file-depth-cap.patch: add MAX_MERGE_DEPTH and a nesting counter. * Add committed regression tests to the shipped test suite for the six fixes that a black-box test can observe, each carried by the patch it proves and each failing without that patch: - testsuite/cve-2026-70452.test (els/0014), an unresolvable "hosts deny" token must deny. - testsuite/cve-2026-70463.test (els/0015), the first word of a space-bearing "auth users" entry must not become an allow rule. - testsuite/cve-2026-53786.test (els/0017), a daemon filter rule must govern a client merge file, and an "exclude from" path that only shares the module path's textual prefix must not be truncated. - testsuite/cve-2026-53790.test (els/0021), a newline-bearing filter rule must not reach the replay script and an injected RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG %H host must not execute. - testsuite/cve-2026-53790-shell-chars.test (els/0025), a newline, a carriage return or a backtick in a path must not execute a command on the remote shell, and an ordinary transfer over the same remote shell must still work. - testsuite/cve-2026-70458.test (els/0022), the daemon's logged "%C" must be the file's checksum, not adjacent pool memory. - testsuite/merge-depth.test (els/0024), a self-referencing merge file must be refused, not crash the process. - testsuite/cve-2026-53790-safe-arg-uninit.test (els/0027), a trailing backslash in a path must reach the remote shell doubled, and no stray byte may follow a path that carries a backslash. * SECURITY UPDATE: safe_arg() sized its result one byte larger than it wrote for every backslash that precedes a wildcard and for a trailing backslash, so the closing NUL landed past the last byte written and uninitialised heap was returned inside the string handed to the remote shell (--protect-args is off by default in 3.1.3). The same defect left a trailing backslash unescaped there, where it escapes the following space and joins the next word: - debian/patches/els/0027-CVE-2026-53790-safe-arg-uninit.patch: make the escape counter mirror the writer and guard the WILD_CHARS lookup with f[1]. Upstream's own stable-branch backport (1aef79e1 on v3.2.7-sec-patches3, from 22efd249), applied unchanged. - CVE-2026-53790. * SECURITY UPDATE: a fourth out-of-bounds F_SUM() read, specific to this package. generator.c unchanged_file() guards the checksum compare on the destination's on-disk mode while the slot is reserved from the peer-supplied file->mode; Debian's copy-devices.diff lets a device entry reach it, so with -c --copy-devices a sender's device entry whose destination is an existing regular file reads below its pool slot: - debian/patches/els/0030-CVE-2026-70458-copy-devices.patch: require S_ISREG(file->mode) as well. - CVE-2026-70458. * Carry the four remaining hunks of upstream 3eeedf8d that land in functions this series already patches (no CVE assigned; the same malicious-peer hardening commit seven of the patches above cite): - debian/patches/els/0026-donor-parity-3eeedf8d.patch: re-check the block length before adopting want_i in hash_search(), clamp a peer-supplied s->flength to the local length in match_sums(), and refuse a sub-flist that arrives after the final flist was freed or that names a cleared dir_flist slot in recv_file_list(). * Fix secure_relative_open() never returning a directory descriptor. The per-component walk only assigned the result in its ENOTDIR arm, so a path that resolved to a directory fell through to "errno = EINVAL" and returned -1. Every permission change on a daemon receiver running with "use chroot = no" therefore failed with "failed to set permissions ... Invalid argument (22)" and the transfer exited 23. Introduced by els/0006-CVE-2026-29518.patch, which added both the helper and its O_DIRECTORY callers: - debian/patches/els/0029-secure-relative-open-dirfd.patch. * Run the upstream testsuite during the build, so the regression tests above are load-bearing: - debian/patches/els/0028-testsuite-harness.patch: add the missing syscall.o stubs (noatime, am_daemon, am_chrooted) to tls.c, trimslash.c and t_unsafe.c, without which "make check" could not even link its helper programs, and let runtests.sh honour a $skiptests list. - debian/rules: run "make check" from build-stamp unless DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck, excluding devices and devices-fake, which fail identically on 3.1.3 with only the Debian patches applied.