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net/rsync -- denial of service

Affected packages
rsync < 3.5.1_1

Details

VuXML ID c70f21b6-d7b4-11f1-bae2-3497f65b111b
Discovery 2026-11-03
Entry 2026-11-03

VulnCheck reports:

rsync through 3.5.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the delta-transfer sender's hash_search() in match.c that allows malicious receivers to trigger unbounded strong-checksum work at consecutive offsets. Unauthenticated attackers pulling from a public daemon module can supply weak checksums colliding with consecutive rolling windows plus non-matching strong checksums, exhausting sender CPU across concurrent connections.

References

CVE Name CVE-2026-119741
URL https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/a7404a9a633cff28ee1602f328b9c3fa69cdbd04
URL https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-through-3.5.1-denial-of-service-via-hash-search-checksum-collisions