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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-5905: KTorrent: Multiple vulnerabilitites

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-5905: KTorrent: Multiple vulnerabilitites

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/15/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The web interface plugin in KTorrent before 3.1.4 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and upload arbitrary torrent files, and trigger the start of downloads and seeding, via a crafted HTTP POST request.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-p2p-ktorrent

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