CVE-2011-1097: Samba Rsync

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Samba Rsync: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …

Published 2011-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.