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Debian 4.0: DSA 1373-2 Critical: Ktorrent Directory Traversal Issue

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2007
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ktorrent version enhancement in Debian addresses severe directory traversal vulnerabilities enabling random file replacement.
It was discovered that ktorrent, a BitTorrent client for KDE, was vulnerable to a directory traversal bug which potentially allowed remote users to overwrite arbitrary files.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.0.3+dfsg1-2.2etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this package was not present.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem was fixed in version
2.2.1.dfsg.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ktorrent package.


Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 12627 1b6b0147d315efb6eb18aad0bfe9d81c
Size/MD5 checksum: 2183095 3aef60283e457b7e13c1719387251612
Size/MD5 checksum: 667 caee4d3c81f64c004e793801...

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