CVE-2024-12084

Jan. 15, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

9.8
Critical

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
rsync

Weaknesses

CWE-122
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330527
https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/6

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-122
2025-01-15
CVE-2024-12084

CVSS Score

9.8 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
    • View Vector String

    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Date

  • Published: Jan. 15, 2025, 3:15 p.m.
  • Last Modified: Jan. 15, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

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