Package: rsync
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for rsync.

CVE-2011-1097[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

More info:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7936
http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync.git;a=commitdiff;h=83b94efa6b60a3ff5eee4c5f7812c617a90a03f6;hp=c8255147b06b74dad940d32f9cef5fbe17595239

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1097
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1097

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