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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2024-12085: Security patch for rsync (ALAS-2025-1955)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2024-12085: Security patch for rsync (ALAS-2025-1955)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/14/2025
Created
01/21/2025
Added
01/18/2025
Modified
02/18/2025

Description

A flaw was found in the rsync daemon which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the checksum length (s2length) to cause a comparison between a checksum and uninitialized memory and leak one byte of uninitialized stack data at a time.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rsync

References

  • ALAS-2025-1955
  • CVE-2024-12085

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