ERROR: rejecting excluded file-list name

[Heitor Moreira]

Problems related to --exclude and --filter=protect options are raising error while execution of rsync.

The following error is launched:
ERROR: rejecting excluded file-list name:
rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at flist.c(994) [receiver=3.2.5]
rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32)

It was already reported in: https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/issues/375
There is also a patch released.

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lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.10
Release: 22.10

apt-cache policy rsync
rsync:
  Instalado: 3.2.5-1
  Candidato: 3.2.5-1

[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

Yes, it's horribly broken :-(

[Paride Legovini (paride)]

Hello, I didn't go into the specifics of the bug, but according to LP: #2007837 the security team (Cc: mdeslaur) is going to release rsync 3.2.7 to jammy and kinetic as a security update, so this bug should get fixed too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rsync - 3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.10.1

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rsync (3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.10.1) kinetic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY REGRESSION: multiple issues (LP: #2002918)
    - Updated to 3.2.7 to fix multiple regressions with the CVE-2022-29154
      fixes that went into 3.2.5.
    - debian/patches: Added two additional upstream patches:
      + trust_the_sender_on_a_local_transfer.patch
      + avoid_quoting_of_tilde_when_its_a_destination_arg.patch

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:17:14 -0500

[Mickaël LAMBERT (mkl1)]

Hello Everyone !

I hope you're doing fine !

I have a seemly identical bug on Ubuntu 22.04.(1/2?) using rsync_3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.2_amd64.deb.

Doing :

rsync --verbose --recursive --times --links --safe-links --hard-links --stats \
--files-from=/tmp/file_list rsync://rsync.ourserver.internal.bla/somepath /tmp/.

file_list contains alike :
../.the_directory/the_file
../.the_directory/another_file

I got :
ERROR: rejecting unrequested file-list name: .the_directory
rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at flist.c(1000) [Receiver=3.2.7]

Work correctly using rsync_3.2.3-8ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb.

Does this fix makes it to the Ubuntu 22.04.x repos?

Thanks in advance,
Have a nice day !

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Please file a new bug for that issue, this bug is unrelated to the issue you are having, and is closed. Thanks!