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CVE-2011-1097 json

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…

published 2011-03-30 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-1111

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rsync Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.8

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1097

  • rsync RHEL 6 3.0.6-5.el6_0.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:0390

  • rsync openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.1.2-1.5

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10548-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-1097 updated cvss 3.6

rsync: Incremental file-list corruption due to temporary file_extra_cnt increments

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 rsync
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) rsync 3.0.6-5.el6_0.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) rsync 3.0.6-5.el6_0.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) rsync 3.0.6-5.el6_0.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) rsync 3.0.6-5.el6_0.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:0390

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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