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openSUSE Leap 15.6: SUSE-SU-2025:0156-1 important: rsync buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important patch released for rsync in openSUSE Leap 15.6 tackling multiple security flaws, including five vulnerabilities and an additional security enhancement.
An update that solves six vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for rsync fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2024-12084: heap buffer overflow in checksum parsing. (bsc#1234100)

* CVE-2024-12085: leak of uninitialized stack data on the server leading to

possible ASLR bypass. (bsc#1234101)

* CVE-2024-12086: leak of a client machine's file contents through the

processing of checksum data. (bsc#1234102)

* CVE-2024-12087: arbitrary file overwrite possible on clients when symlink

syncing is enabled. (bsc#1234103)

* CVE-2024-12088: bypass of the --safe-links flag may allow the placement of

unsafe symlinks in a client. (bsc#1234104)

* CVE-2024-12747: race condition in rsync handling symbolic links

(bsc#1235475)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow file overwrite important rsync openSUSE symbolic links

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-156=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-156=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-156=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* rsync-debuginfo-3.2.7-150600.3.8.1

* rsync-debugsource-3.2.7-150600.3.8.1

* rsync-3.2.7-150600.3.8.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* rsync-debuginfo-3.2.7-150600.3.8.1

* rsync-debugsource-3.2.7-150600.3.8.1

* rsync-3.2.7-150600.3.8.1

References

* bsc#1234100

* bsc#1234101

* bsc#1234102

* bsc#1234103

* bsc#1234104

* bsc#1235475

* bsc#1235895

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12085.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12086.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12087.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12088.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12747.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234100

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234101

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234102

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234103

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234104

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235475

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235895

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0156-1
Release Date: 2025-01-17T11:59:13Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow file overwrite important rsync openSUSE symbolic links

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