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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2279-1
July 16, 2014

transmission vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Transmission could be made to crash or run programs if it received
specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

• transmission: lightweight BitTorrent client

Details:

Ben Hawkes discovered that Transmission incorrectly handled certain peer
messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
transmission-common 2.82-1.1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 13.10:
transmission-common 2.82-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
transmission-common 2.51-0ubuntu1.4

After a standard system update you need to restart Transmission to make all
the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2279-1
CVE-2014-4909

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.82-1.1ubuntu3.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.82-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.51-0ubuntu1.4

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