Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | Transmission vulnerability |
Informations | |||
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Name | USN-2279-1 | First vendor Publication | 2014-07-16 |
Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2014-07-16 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 6.8 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
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: Ubuntu 13.10: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: After a standard system update you need to restart Transmission to make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2279-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-189 | Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24973 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24973 | ||
Title: | USN-2279-1 -- 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-2279-1 CVE-2014-4909 | Version: | 3 |
Platform(s): | Ubuntu 14.04 Ubuntu 13.10 Ubuntu 12.04 | Product(s): | transmission |
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25654 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25654 | ||
Title: | DSA-2988-1 -- transmission - security update | ||
Description: | Ben Hawkes discovered that incorrect handling of peer messages in the Transmission bittorrent client could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Reference(s): | DSA-2988-1 CVE-2014-4909 | Version: | 5 |
Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 7 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7 | Product(s): | transmission |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
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2014-10-12 | Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update. File : ala_ALAS-2014-390.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-08-15 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-8332.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-08-12 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2014-484.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-07-26 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-2988.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-07-21 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-8331.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-07-17 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-2279-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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2014-07-30 21:29:02 |
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2014-07-29 21:28:54 |
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2014-07-18 13:24:38 |
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2014-07-16 17:20:42 |
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