Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2279-1 High: Transmission Denial Of Service

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July 16, 2014

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:

Ben Hawkes discovered that Transmission incorrectly handled certain peer

messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of

service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high ubuntu transmission

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  transmission-common             2.82-1.1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 13.10:
  transmission-common             2.82-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  transmission-common             2.51-0ubuntu1.4

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