CVE-2024-12084
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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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
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-12084
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202501-1
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 3.4.0-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3.2.7-1+deb12u1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 3.3.0+ds1-3 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 3.3.0+ds1-3 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 3.3.0+ds1-3 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.