Summary
The remote host is missing an update to ktorrent
announced via advisory DSA 1372-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201372-1
Insight
It was discovered that ktorrent, a BitTorrent client for KDE, was vulnerable to a directory traversal bug which potentially allowed remote users to overwrite arbitrary files.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.3+dfsg1-2etch1.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this package was not present.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem was fixed in version 2.2.1.dfsg.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ktorrent package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-1799 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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