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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201006-06">
  <title>Transmission: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Stack-based buffer overflows in Transmission may allow for remote execution
    of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">transmission</product>
  <announced>2010-06-01</announced>
  <revised>2010-06-01: 01</revised>
  <bug>309831</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-p2p/transmission" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.92</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.92</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the tr_magnetParse() function
    in libtransmission/magnet.c have been discovered.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service or possibly execute
    arbitrary code via a crafted magnet URL with a large number of tr or ws
    links.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Transmission users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-p2p/transmission-1.92"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1853">CVE-2010-1853</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2010-05-22T11:12:44Z">
    craig
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2010-05-27T13:42:12Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2010-05-27T17:53:20Z">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
</glsa>