Integer overflow in the tr_bitfieldEnsureNthBitAlloced function in bitfield.c in Transmission before 2.84 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted peer message, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

update to 2.84

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

transmission was updated to fix a peer communication vulnerability (no known exploits). (bnc#887079, CVE-2014-4909).

Ben Hawkes discovered that incorrect handling of peer messages in the Transmission bittorrent client could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2279-1 advisory.

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
78333	Amazon Linux AMI : transmission (ALAS-2014-390)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
77204	Fedora 19 : transmission-2.84-1.fc19 (2014-8332)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
77128	openSUSE Security Update : transmission (openSUSE-SU-2014:0980-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
76843	Debian DSA-2988-1 : transmission - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
76610	Fedora 20 : transmission-2.84-1.fc20 (2014-8331)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
76559	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Transmission vulnerability (USN-2279-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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CVE-2014-4909

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