An update for rsync is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

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)

* rsync: --safe-links option bypass leads to path traversal (CVE-2024-12088)

* rsync: Race Condition in rsync Handling Symbolic Links (CVE-2024-12747)

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.

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CVE-2024-12087: Path Traversal: '.../...//' (CWE-35)
CVE-2024-12088: Path Traversal: '.../...//' (CWE-35)
CVE-2024-12747: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper
 Synchronization ('Race Condition') (CWE-362)