CVE-2024-12084
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · CWE-122
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)72%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqjAdvisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330527Advisory
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/6Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657