CVE-2011-1097: samba rsync

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-1097 is a medium (CVSS 5.1) vulnerability in samba rsync. EPSS estimates a 3.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 30-03-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.