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Made the impact of the CVE-2022-29154 more explicit
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docs/requirements.md

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### Update April 2023
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The [recent fix in rsync `3.2.5`](https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/blob/master/NEWS.md#news-for-rsync-325-14-aug-2022) for [CVE-2022-29154](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29154) causes severe performance impacts on backup-utils.
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The [recent fix in rsync `3.2.5`](https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/blob/master/NEWS.md#news-for-rsync-325-14-aug-2022) for [CVE-2022-29154](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29154) causes backup-utils to timeout.
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These impacts can be mitigated by using the `--trust-sender` flag with rsync; this flag is available from v3.2.5 onwards. Unfortunately some Linux distributions have backported the fix for this CVE to their rsync package without also backporting the `--trust-sender` flag. If your backup host is running on an operating system in this situation (i.e. the CVE fix has been backported but the `--trust-sender` flag has not) you have three options:
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To avoid this time out you must use the `--trust-sender` flag with rsync; this flag is available from v3.2.5 onwards. Unfortunately some Linux distributions have backported the fix for this CVE to their rsync package without also backporting the `--trust-sender` flag. If your backup host is running on an operating system in this situation (i.e. the CVE fix has been backported but the `--trust-sender` flag has not) you have three options:
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1. Downgrade (using the package manager on your host) the rsync package to a version before the CVE fix was backported
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2. Upgrade (using the package manager on your host) the rsync package to v3.2.5 or newer

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