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Gentoo: GLSA-200705-01 Normal: Ktorrent Remote Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2007
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A series of flaws identified in Ktorrent enables potential remote code execution and Denial of Service attacks; suggested remedies outlined.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ktorrent allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Ktorrent: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: May 01, 2007 Bugs: #170303 ID: 200705-01

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ktorrent allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Ktorrent is a Bittorrent client for KDE.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-p2p/ktorrent < 2.1.3 >= 2.1.3
========== Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks discovered a vulnerability in chunkcounter.cpp when processing large or negative idx values, and a directory traversal vulnerability in torre...

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