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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : transmission vulnerability (USN-1584-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 62347

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Justin C. Klein Keane discovered that the Transmission web client incorrectly escaped certain strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted torrent file, an attacker could possibly exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

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

Solution

Update the affected transmission-common package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1584-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 62347

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1584-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/27/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:transmission-common

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4037

BID: 54705

USN: 1584-1