vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-12085: rsync -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 14, 2025
Added
Jan 16, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in rsync 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

debian-upgrade-rsync
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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