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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200705-01
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Ktorrent: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: May 01, 2007
      Bugs: #170303
        ID: 200705-01

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ktorrent allowing for
the remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.

Background
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Ktorrent is a Bittorrent client for KDE.

Affected packages
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     Package           /  Vulnerable  /                     Unaffected
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  1  net-p2p/ktorrent       < 2.1.3                           >= 2.1.3

Description
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Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks discovered a vulnerability in
chunkcounter.cpp when processing large or negative idx values, and a
directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp.

Impact
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A remote attacker could entice a user to download a specially crafted
torrent file, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running Ktorrent.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Ktorrent users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/ktorrent-2.1.3"

References
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  [ 1 ] CVE-2007-1384
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1384
  [ 2 ] CVE-2007-1385
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1385
  [ 3 ] CVE-2007-1799
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1799

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200705-01

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.

License
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/