CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-12084
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122, CWE-787
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 configurations
• samba rsync 3.2.7
• samba rsync 3.3.0
• almalinux almalinux 10.0
• archlinux arch linux
• gentoo linux
• nixos nixos (< 24.11)
• nixos nixos 24.11
• novell suse linux
• tritondatacenter smartos (< 20250123)
• redhat enterprise linux 10.0
Related
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470 access.redhat.com
- 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/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657 www.kb.cert.org
- https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqj Exploit, Vendor Advisory