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Mageia 9 MGASA-2025-0019 critical: rsync buffer overflow and file leaks

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2025
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Enhanced rsync software in Mageia 2025-0019 resolves several vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow and directory traversal risk.
Heap buffer overflow in rsync due to improper checksum length handling

Summary

Heap buffer overflow in rsync due to improper checksum length handling. (CVE-2024-12084) Info leak via uninitialized stack contents. (CVE-2024-12085) Rsync server leaks arbitrary client files. (CVE-2024-12086) Path traversal vulnerability in rsync. (CVE-2024-12087) Rsync --safe-links option bypass leads to path traversal. (CVE-2024-12088) Race condition in rsync handling symbolic links. (CVE-2024-12747)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33920

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/3

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00004.html

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7206-1

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7206-2

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12084

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12085

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12086

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12087

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12088

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12747

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak buffer overflow rsync path traversal Mageia arbitrary file leak

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/rsync-3.2.7-1.2.mga9

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Publication date: 22 Jan 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0019.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-12084, CVE-2024-12085, CVE-2024-12086, CVE-2024-12087, CVE-2024-12088, CVE-2024-12747

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory information leak buffer overflow rsync path traversal Mageia arbitrary file leak

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