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CVE-2011-1097

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1097 describes a heap memory corruption vulnerability in rsync 3.x before version 3.0.8, specifically when certain recursion, deletion, and ownership options are enabled. This flaw can lead to a denial of service (application crash) or potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 5.1, it has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, allowing unauthenticated attackers to impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0319 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rsync-0:3.0.6-5.el6_0.1
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: rsync

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-1097Moderate

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

Mar 26, 2011

References

gitweb.samba.org
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057641.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057736.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057737.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html
lists.samba.org / archive/rsync/2011-January/025988.html
marc.info
rsync.samba.org / ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.8-NEWS
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
bugzilla.samba.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/44071
secunia.com / advisories/44088
securitytracker.com / id
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0390.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0792
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0793
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0873
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0876