Debian DLA-1246-1 : transmission security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 106173

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in the Transmission BitTorrent client; insecure RPC handling between the Transmission daemon and the client interface(s) may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a user visits a malicious website while Transmission is running.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.52-3+nmu3.

We recommend that you upgrade your transmission packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106173

File Name: debian_DLA-1246.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/19/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-cli, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-daemon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-gtk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-qt, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5702

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