CVE-2003-0962: Andrew Tridgell Rsync

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 21.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in rsync before 2.5.7, when running in server mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and possibly escape the chroot jail.

Affected products

• Andrew Tridgell Rsync: version 2.3.1 only; version 2.3.2 only; version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.1 only; version 2.4.3 only; version 2.4.4 only; …
• Engardelinux Secure Community: version 1.0.1 only; version 2.0 only
• Engardelinux Secure Linux: version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.5 only
• Red Hat Rsync: version 2.4.6-2 only; version 2.4.6-5 only; version 2.5.4-2 only; version 2.5.5-1 only; version 2.5.5-4 only
• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 8.1 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only; version current only

Published 2003-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.