INFBA-2025:6470: rsync security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFBA-2025:6470

Type: bugfix

Release date: 2025-07-25 10:31:30 UTC

Information about package

rsyncd is the daemon (server) version of the rsync utility, which is used for synchronizing files between computers. It allows rsync to run as a service, listening for incoming connections and transferring files based on its configuration.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2024-12084

    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.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 9.8 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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