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USN-885-1: Transmission vulnerabilities

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USN-885-1: Transmission vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/08/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within a .torrent file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-transmission-cli
  • ubuntu-upgrade-transmission-gtk
  • ubuntu-upgrade-transmission-qt

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