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CVE-2024-12085: Rsync: info leak via uninitialized stack contents

Description

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-12085

Affected Products

Vendor: Red Hat

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 19.35% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-12 (when was this score calculated)

References

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

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