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SUSE-SU-2026:0005-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2026-01-02 12:30 - Updated: 2026-01-02 12:30

Summary

Security update for rsync

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for rsync

Description of the patch: This update for rsync fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-10158: Fixed out of bounds array access via negative index (bsc#1254441)

Patchnames: SUSE-2026-5,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2026-5

CVE-2025-10158

4.3 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected products

Recommended 1 product

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5:rsync-3.1.3-3.34.1.x86_64		—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact moderate

References

8 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/s…	self
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/…	self
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-upd…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254441	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10158/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10158	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254441	external

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CVE-2025-10158 (GCVE-0-2025-10158)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-18 14:24 – Updated: 2025-11-19 16:48

Title

Rsync: Out of bounds array access via negative index

Summary

A malicious client acting as the receiver of an rsync file transfer can trigger an out of bounds read of a heap based buffer, via a negative array index. The malicious rsync client requires at least read access to the remote rsync module in order to trigger the issue.

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-11-19 16:15 UTC

CWE

CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index

Assigner

rapid7 mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/797e…	patch
https://attackerkb.com/assessments/fbacb2a6-d1cd-…	technical-description

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
rsync	rsync	Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.4.1 (semver)

Date Public

2025-11-18 14:20

Credits

Calum Hutton

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