CVE-2024-12084

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-12084

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202501-1

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.4.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.2.7-1+deb12u1
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed3.3.0+ds1-3
debian debiansidfixed3.3.0+ds1-3
debian debiantrixiefixed3.3.0+ds1-3

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.