CVE-2024-12084
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 4.6%rsync - security update
Published: 1/15/2025Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2024-12084
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/rsyncfrom 0, < 3.4.0-r0
- Debian/rsyncfrom 0, < 3.2.7-1+deb12u1
- Debian/rsyncfrom 0, < 3.2.7-1+deb12u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |