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Debian DSA-2988-1 : transmission - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76843

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ben Hawkes discovered that incorrect handling of peer messages in the Transmission bittorrent client could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the transmission packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.52-3+nmu2.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2988

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76843

File Name: debian_DSA-2988.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission, 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: 7/24/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4909

BID: 68487

DSA: 2988