CVE-2024-12085: Almalinux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

  • Almalinux Almalinux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
  • Archlinux Arch Linux: affected versions not specified
  • Gentoo Linux: affected versions not specified
  • Nixos Nixos: before 24.11 (fixed in 24.11)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 8.8 only; version 9.2 only; version 9.4 only; version 9.6 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64: version 8.0_aarch64 only; version 9.0_aarch64 only; version 9.2_aarch64 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 Eus: version 8.8_aarch64 only; version 9.4_aarch64 only; version 9.6_aarch64 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems: version 8.0_s390x only; version 9.0_s390x only; version 9.2_s390x only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems Eus: version 8.8_s390x only; version 9.4_s390x only; version 9.6_s390x only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian: version 8.0_ppc64le only; version 8.8_ppc64le only; version 9.0_ppc64le only; version 9.2_ppc64le only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus: version 9.4_ppc64le only; version 9.6_ppc64le only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only; version 9.2 only; version 9.4 only; version 9.6 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For SAP Solutions: version 8.4_ppc64le only; version 8.6_ppc64le only; version 8.8_ppc64le only; version 9.0_ppc64le only; version 9.2_ppc64le only; version 9.4_ppc64le only; …
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only; version 8.8 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update Services For SAP Solutions: version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.2 only; version 9.6 only
  • Red Hat Openshift: version 5.0 only
  • Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.12 only; version 4.13 only; version 4.14 only; version 4.15 only; version 4.16 only; version 4.17 only
  • Samba Rsync: before 3.3.0 (fixed in 3.3.0)
  • Suse Suse Linux: affected versions not specified
  • Tritondatacenter Smartos: before 20250123 (fixed in 20250123)

Published 2025-01-14. Last modified 2026-09-21.