A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the rsync daemon. This issue is due to improper handling of attacker-controlled checksum lengths (s2length) in the code. When MAX_DIGEST_LEN exceeds the fixed SUM_LENGTH (16 bytes), an attacker can write out of bounds in the sum2 buffer.
References
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| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330527 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
| https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657 | Third Party Advisory |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/6 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/ | |
| https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657 | |
| https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqj | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2025-01-15 15:15
Updated : 2025-11-03 22:16
NVD link : CVE-2024-12084
Mitre link : CVE-2024-12084
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-12084
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Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux
gentoo
- linux
almalinux
- almalinux
nixos
- nixos
archlinux
- arch_linux
tritondatacenter
- smartos
samba
- rsync
novell
- suse_linux
