Advisories » MGASA-2019-0379

Updated qbittorrent packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Dec 2019
Modification date: 13 Dec 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-13640

Description

In qBittorrent before 4.1.7, the function Application::runExternalProgram()
located in app/application.cpp allows command injection via shell
metacharacters in the torrent name parameter or current tracker parameter, as
demonstrated by remote command execution via a crafted name within an RSS feed
(CVE-2019-13640).

The qbittorrent package has been updated to version 4.1.9.1, fixing this issue
and several others.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25507
• https://www.qbittorrent.org/news.php
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2019-08/msg00195.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13640

SRPMS

7/core

• qbittorrent-4.1.9.1-1.mga7