CVE-2011-1097
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.1EPSS 3.2%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.2% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1111)
- Published
- March 30, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1111 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- samba / rsync
- samba / rsync
- samba / rsync
- samba / rsync
- samba / rsync
- samba / rsync
- samba / rsync
- samba / rsync
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
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0390.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0792(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0793(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0873
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0876
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675036(Patch)
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7936
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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