INFSA-2025:0325: rsync security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:0325

Type: security

Release date: 2025-01-21 18:04:18 UTC

Information about package

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.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2024-12085

    A flaw was found in the rsync daemon which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the checksum length (s2length) to cause a comparison between a checksum and uninitialized memory and leak one byte of uninitialized stack data at a time.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.5 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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