VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2024-12084
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the rsync daemon.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 72.1%
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 72.1%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 72.06% probability · 99th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-122, CWE-787
- Affected
- samba/rsync · almalinux/almalinux · archlinux/arch linux · gentoo/linux · nixos/nixos · novell/suse linux · tritondatacenter/smartos · redhat/enterprise linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330527Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
- https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqjExploit, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.