Issued:
2025-12-22
Updated:
2025-12-22

RHSA-2025:23842 - Moderate: rsync security update

Synopsis

Moderate: rsync security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for rsync is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The rsync utility enables the users to copy and synchronize files locally or across a network. Synchronization with rsync is fast because rsync only sends the differences in files over the network instead of sending whole files. The rsync utility is also used as a mirroring tool.

Security Fix(es):

  • rsync: Path traversal vulnerability in rsync (CVE-2024-12087)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • rsync-debugsource-3.1.3-7.el8_2.6.x86_64.rpm
  • rsync-3.1.3-7.el8_2.6.src.rpm
  • rsync-daemon-3.1.3-7.el8_2.6.noarch.rpm
  • rsync-debuginfo-3.1.3-7.el8_2.6.x86_64.rpm
  • rsync-3.1.3-7.el8_2.6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information