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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-8897 Critical Ctorrent Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey August 25, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch resolves a stack overflow issue, improving the security of ctorrent for Fedora 11 while providing more reliable operation.
Security update, fixes a stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-1759).

Summary

Enhanced CTorrent is a BitTorrent client for unix-like environments. High

performance with minimal system resources and dependencies are a priority.

Update Information:

Security update, fixes a stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-1759).

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security advisory critical issue buffer overflow software update Fedora

Change Log

* Fri Aug 21 2009 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 1.3.4-10.dnh3.3.2 - fixed stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-1759, RHBZ #501813)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #501813 - CVE-2009-1759 ctorrent: stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501813

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ctorrent' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: ctorrent
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.3.4
Release: 10.dnh3.3.2.fc11
URL: http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/
Summary: Command line BitTorrent client for unix-like environments

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