Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-013 - 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. 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. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:013
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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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.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1757
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0012
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2009.1:
0b4b88d4d793c3f7091163838002eb7f 2009.1/i586/transmission-1.51-1.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm
900c75c6bf2f4bf67bf8a29a05f6c9da 2009.1/SRPMS/transmission-1.51-1.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64:
1d3e815ab686bd4c7643feee30dec820 2009.1/x86_64/transmission-1.51-1.1mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm
900c75c6bf2f4bf67bf8a29a05f6c9da 2009.1/SRPMS/transmission-1.51-1.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm
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