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Debian DLA-2218-1 : transmission security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 136834

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Tom Richards reported that by using a crafted torrent file one could cause a use-after-free, which might result in a denial of service (crash) or possible execution of arbitrary code.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.84-0.2+deb8u2.

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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00022.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/transmission

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136834

File Name: debian_DLA-2218.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2020

Updated: 3/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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 Score Source: CVE-2018-10756

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-gtk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-qt, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-cli, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-daemon

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: 5/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10756