CVE-2014-8242
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.8
Description
librsync before 1.0.0 uses a truncated MD4 checksum to match blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to modify transmitted data via a birthday attack.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.0.2-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.0.2-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.0.2-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.0.2-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.0.2-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| librsync_project | librsync | {"endExcluding":"1.0.0"} | 1.0.0 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8242.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151105.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152355.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152366.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00034.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/28/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/05/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/13/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126712
- https://github.com/librsync/librsync/issues/5
- https://github.com/librsync/librsync/releases/tag/v1.0.0
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-04
- https://www.miknet.net/security/optimizing-birthday-attack/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8242
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.