A vulnerability wase discovered and corrected in rsync:

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 (CVE-2011-1097).

Packages for 2009.0 are provided as of the Extended Maintenance
Program. Please visit this link to learn more:
http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?cPath=149&products_id=490

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.