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CVE-2024-12084

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published1/15/2025

Last Modified11/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

almalinux:almalinuxarchlinux:arch_linuxgentoo:linuxnixos:nixosnovell:suse_linuxredhat:enterprise_linuxsamba:rsynctritondatacenter:smartos

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-122CWE-787

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330527(secalert@redhat.com)

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqj(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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