CVE-2024-12085
Rsync: info leak via uninitialized stack contents
HIGH 7.5EPSS 8.8%
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.
- Affected
- Red Hat · rsync · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSION · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support
- CVSS v3.1 REDHAT
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - EPSS
- 8.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 95th percentile
- Published
- 2025-01-14
- Updated
- 2026-10-13
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqj
- Otsutez/cve-2024-120850★ · 2025-07-24
Security advisories
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0324
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0325
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0637
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0688
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0714
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0774
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0787
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0790
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0849
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0884
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0885
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1120
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1123
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1128
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1225
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1227
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1242
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1451
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2701
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12085
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330539
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657