CVE-2024-12085

A flaw was found in rsync 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. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

CVE-2024-12085 has a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.5 out of 10, rated HIGH. This is a high-severity vulnerability that should be prioritized for patching.

CVE-2024-12085 affects products from almalinux, archlinux, gentoo, nixos, redhat, samba, suse, tritondatacenter, specifically: almalinux, arch_linux, enterprise_linux, enterprise_linux_eus, enterprise_linux_for_arm_64, enterprise_linux_for_arm_64_eus, enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems, enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_eus, enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian, enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus, enterprise_linux_server, enterprise_linux_server_aus, enterprise_linux_server_for_power_little_endian_update_services_for_sap_solutions, enterprise_linux_server_tus, enterprise_linux_update_services_for_sap_solutions, linux, nixos, openshift, openshift_container_platform, rsync, smartos, suse_linux. Check the affected products table above for specific version ranges.

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