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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-1584-1: Transmission XSS Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2012
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has a vulnerability in Transmission that leaks personal data. It's essential to update to guard against possible XSS exploits.
Transmission could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Summary

Transmission could be made to expose sensitive information over the

network.

Software Description:

- transmission: lightweight BitTorrent client

Details:

Justin C. Klein Keane discovered that the Transmission web client

incorrectly escaped certain strings. If a user were tricked into opening a

specially crafted torrent file, an attacker could possibly exploit this to

conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update instructions information exposure xss ubuntu sensitive data transmission

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  transmission-common             2.51-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Transmission to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1584-1

CVE-2012-4037

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September 26, 2012

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Topics Covered

security advisory update instructions information exposure xss ubuntu sensitive data transmission

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.51-0ubuntu1.1

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