{"id":"RLSA-2025:8395","summary":"Low: rsync security update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c (CVE-2016-9840)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-03-11T06:38:19.069061Z","published":"2025-07-29T13:38:26.982620Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-9840"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:8395"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402345"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"rsync","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/rsync?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:3.1.3-23.el8_10"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:8395.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}