Red Hat Security Advisory: rsync security update

Fixed packages 2

Vulnerabilities 1

• High 7.5
  CVE-2024-12085 Public exploit

  Rsync: info leak via uninitialized stack contents

  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 uninitializ…

  Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  Jan 14, 2025

References

• article
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330539
• advisory
  https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_0849.json
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12085
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12085
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12085
• article
  https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657