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Fedora 11 : transmission-1.77-2.fc11 (2010-0388)

high Nessus Plugin ID 47182

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix potential data loss by maliciously-crafted .torrent files.
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-1.77

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.

Solution

Update the affected transmission package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552424

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-1.77

http://www.nessus.org/u?cb29ae10

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47182

File Name: fedora_2010-0388.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:transmission

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2010

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2010-0388