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Oracle Linux 9 : rsync (ELSA-2025-7050)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237042

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-7050 advisory.

 [3.2.5-3]
 - Resolves: RHEL-70265 - Rebase rsync to 3.2.5

 [3.2.5-2]
 - Resolves: RHEL-70158 - Info Leak via Uninitialized Stack Contents
 - Resolves: RHEL-70208 - Path traversal vulnerability in rsync
 - Resolves: RHEL-70210 - --safe-links option bypass leads to path traversal
 - Resolves: RHEL-71657 - Race Condition in rsync Handling Symbolic Links

 [3.2.3-21]
 - Resolves: RHEL-70265 - Rebase rsync to 3.2.5
 - Resolves: RHEL-67142 - Wrong progress reported by rsync when using copy-devices
 - Resolves: RHEL-29340 - Slowness in rsync due to extra validation steps.
 - Resolves: RHEL-18216 - rysnc script /usr/share/doc/rsync/support/rrsync is unsecure

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected rsync, rsync-daemon and / or rsync-rrsync packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-7050.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237042

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-7050.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2025

Updated: 5/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12088

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:6:baseos_base, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:6:appstream_base, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9::baseos_latest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsync, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsync-rrsync, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rsync-daemon

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12087, CVE-2024-12088, CVE-2024-12747