CVE-2024-12085: Use of Uninitialized Resource
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.
CVE-2024-12085: Use of Uninitialized Resource
Description
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.5high
Affected software
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:1451
- Cve Count
- 4
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2024-45337","CVE-2024-45338","CVE-2024-53104"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a18be67e29bf47b50388239
Added to database: 05/28/2026, 22:15:03 UTC
Last enriched: 07/19/2026, 21:31:38 UTC
Last updated: 07/27/2026, 10:49:32 UTC
Views: 106
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