Slackware 11.0: SSA:2007-093-02 Critical: KTorrent Remote Exploit
slackware
April 3, 2007
New ktorrent packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ktorrent-2.1.3-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to ktorrent-2.1.3. A directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp in versions < 2.1.2 may allow remote attackers to overwrite the ktorrent user's files. A bug in chunkcounter.cpp in versions < 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to crash ktorrent and cause heap corruption by the use of an invalid idx value. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1384 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1385 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 11.0 package:
1917c267334e4b90ab04c58b1f2ff338 ktorrent-2.1.3-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware -current package:
64c4d3bf516aebe96b6591ab75c2aeb9 ktorrent-2.1.3-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ktorrent-2.1.3-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
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