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Amazon Linux AMI : transmission (ALAS-2020-1399)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138641

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of transmission installed on the remote host is prior to 3.00-1.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2020-1399 advisory.

 Use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission before 3.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted torrent file. (CVE-2018-10756)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update transmission' to update your system.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10756

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2020-1399.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138641

File Name: ala_ALAS-2020-1399.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2020

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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:amazon:linux:transmission, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:transmission-cli, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:transmission-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:transmission-common, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:transmission-daemon

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10756

ALAS: 2020-1399