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Gentoo: GLSA-202210-07 Low: Deluge Cross-Site Scripting Threat

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2022
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Transition to the newest release of Deluge to address potential XSS vulnerabilities as highlighted in the security alert GLSA 202210-07 from Gentoo.
A vulnerability has been found in Deluge which could result in XSS.

Summary

Deluge does not sufficiently sanitize crafted torrent file data, leading to the application interpreting untrusted data as HTML.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update low severity Gentoo Linux XSS issue Deluge

Resolution

All Deluge users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/deluge-2.1.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2021-3427 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3427

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-07
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Concerns

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.

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Severity: Low
Title: Deluge: Cross-Site Scripting
Date: October 16, 2022
Bugs: #866842
ID: 202210-07

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update low severity Gentoo Linux XSS issue Deluge

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in Deluge which could result in XSS.

Background

Deluge is a BitTorrent client.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-p2p/deluge < 2.1.1 >= 2.1.1

Impact

===== An attacker can achieve XSS via a crafted torrent file.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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