CVE-2011-1097

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

rsync 3.x before 3.0.8, when certain recursion, deletion, and ownership options are used, allows remote rsync servers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed data.

Affected products

RsyncProject rsync: 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+2)

References

http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=83b94efa6b60a3ff5eee4c5f7812c617a90a03f6
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057641.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057736.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057737.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2011-January/025988.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.8-NEWS
http://secunia.com/advisories/44071
http://secunia.com/advisories/44088
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025256
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:066

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