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Low RLSA-2025:8395 1 CVE

Low: rsync security update

Published Jul 29, 2025 · Updated Jul 29, 2025

Summary

The rsync utility enables the users to copy and synchronize files locally or across a network. Synchronization with rsync is fast because rsync only sends the differences in files over the network instead of sending whole files. The rsync utility is also used as a mirroring tool.

Security Fix(es):

* zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c (CVE-2016-9840)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 rsync 0:3.1.3-23.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402345