[USN-1584-1] Transmission vulnerability
Marc Deslauriers
marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Wed Sep 26 14:44:23 UTC 2012
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1584-1
September 26, 2012
transmission vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary:
Transmission could be made to expose sensitive information over the
network.
Software Description:
- transmission: lightweight BitTorrent client
Details:
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.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
transmission-common 2.51-0ubuntu1.1
After a standard system update you need to restart Transmission to make
all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1584-1
CVE-2012-4037
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.51-0ubuntu1.1
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