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Debian DLA-2305-1 : transmission security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 139248

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2.92-2+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your transmission packages.

For the detailed security status of transmission please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/transmission

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/2020/08/msg00001.html

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?1861ed77

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139248

File Name: debian_DLA-2305.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2020

Updated: 2/27/2024

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-gtk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-qt, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission-cli, 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: 8/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10756