Advisories

rsync < 3.5.0 Out-of-Bounds Read via Zero-Length Checksum Block

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • rsync <= 3.4.4

CWE
  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS
7.1
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
akoul, z3r0s6
Description
rsync before 3.5.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the sender-side block matching logic that allows a malicious receiver to trigger memory access before the start of an allocated buffer by sending a crafted checksum block with a length of zero. Attackers can send a specially crafted checksum set containing a zero-length block to cause a negative offset calculation during delta computation, resulting in an out-of-bounds read of file data buffer memory on the sender side.

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