Executive Summary

Summary
Title Transmission vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1747-1 First vendor Publication 2013-02-25
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2013-02-25
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 11.10

Summary:

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

Software Description: - transmission: lightweight BitTorrent client

Details:

It was discovered that Transmission incorrectly handled certain micro transport protocol packets. 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 12.10:
transmission-common 2.61-0ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
transmission-common 2.51-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 11.10:
transmission-common 2.33-0ubuntu2.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1747-1
CVE-2012-6129

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.61-0ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.51-0ubuntu1.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.33-0ubuntu2.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1747-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17847
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17847
Title: USN-1747-1 -- transmission vulnerability
Description: Transmission could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1747-1
CVE-2012-6129
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Product(s): transmission
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 93
Os 3
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-01-23 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_0523fb7e84444e86812d8de05f6f0dce.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-220.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-02-26 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1747-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:01:36
  • Multiple Updates
2013-04-03 17:19:10
  • Multiple Updates
2013-04-03 13:20:51
  • Multiple Updates
2013-02-25 17:17:41
  • First insertion