Advisories ยป MGASA-2018-0230

Updated transmission packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2018-5702

Description

Updated transmission packages fix security vulnerability:

Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in the Transmission BitTorrent client;
insecure RPC handling between the Transmission daemon and the client
interface(s) may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a user visits a
malicious website while Transmission is running (CVE-2018-5702).
                

References

SRPMS

6/core