CVE-2024-12085

Publication date 9 January 2025

Last updated 15 January 2025


Ubuntu priority

A flaw was found in the rsync daemon which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the checksum length (s2length) to cause a comparison between a checksum and uninitialized memory and leak one byte of uninitialized stack data at a time.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
rsync 24.10 oracular
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.2.7-1ubuntu1.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 3.1.3-8ubuntu0.8
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needed

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Notes


alexmurray

Likely affects all rsync versions in Ubuntu

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7206-1
    • rsync vulnerabilities
    • 14 January 2025

Other references