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Package : transmission
Date : January 18, 2010
Affected: 2009.1
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Problem Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in transmission:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Transmission 1.5
before 1.53 and 1.6 before 1.61 allows remote attackers to hijack
the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors
(CVE-2009-1757).
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 (CVE-2010-0012).
The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-1757
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2010-0012
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