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Ubuntu 12.10 USN-1747-1 Critical: Transmission Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2013
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1747-1 highlights a vulnerability in transmission that may lead to remote code execution or cause a crash in systems.
Transmission could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Transmission could be made to crash or run programs if it received

specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

- transmission: lightweight BitTorrent client

Details:

It was discovered that Transmission incorrectly handled certain micro

transport protocol packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause

a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  transmission-common             2.61-0ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  transmission-common             2.51-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 11.10:
  transmission-common             2.33-0ubuntu2.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1747-1

CVE-2012-6129

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February 25, 2013

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.61-0ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.51-0ubuntu1.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/2.33-0ubuntu2.1

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