Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-1097

Title: Samba Rsync RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-1097.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 30, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.19%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-1097: 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.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

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 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0793 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 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7936 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 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0793 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 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7936

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-1097 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 30, 2011 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.