CVE-2010-0012

Publication date 8 January 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within a .torrent file.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
transmission	9.10 karmic	Fixed 1.75-0ubuntu2.2
	9.04 jaunty	Fixed 1.51-0ubuntu3.1
	8.10 intrepid	Fixed 1.34-0ubuntu2.3
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 1.06-0ubuntu6.1
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
transmission	Upstream: http://trac.transmissionbt.com/changeset/9829/

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-885-1
Transmission vulnerabilities
18 January 2010