Advisories » MGASA-2014-0298

Updated transmission package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 26 Jul 2014
Modification date: 26 Jul 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-4909

Description

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 (CVE-2014-4909).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13735
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4909

SRPMS

4/core

• transmission-2.82-2.1.mga4

3/core

• transmission-2.77-1.1.mga3