Executive Summary



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Summary
Title Transmission vulnerability
Informations
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
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)
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:
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

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2279-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
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
Definition Synopsis:
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
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 100
Os 3
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
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

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Date Informations
2014-07-30 21:29:02
  • Multiple Updates
2014-07-29 21:28:54
  • Multiple Updates
2014-07-18 13:24:38
  • Multiple Updates
2014-07-16 17:20:42
  • First insertion