CVE-2024-12088

Publication date 9 January 2025

Last updated 15 January 2025

Ubuntu priority

A flaw was found in rsync. When using the `--safe-links` option, rsync fails to properly verify if a symbolic link destination contains another symbolic link within it. This results in a path traversal vulnerability, which may lead to arbitrary file write outside the desired directory.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
rsync	24.10 oracular	Vulnerable
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3.2.7-1ubuntu1.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.1.3-8ubuntu0.8
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.1.2-2.1ubuntu1.6+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.1.1-3ubuntu1.3+esm3 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed

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Notes

alexmurray

Affected function unsafe_symlink() is in rsync in all Ubuntu releases so assuming all are affected since this function hasn't changed upstream in the last 16 years

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)