Summary
The remote host is missing an update to rb_libtorrent announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-6619.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update rb_libtorrent' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-6619
Insight
Update Information:
This release adds an upstream patch to fix a directory traversal vulnerability which would allow a remote attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) and partial relative pathname in a specially-crafted torrent.
In addition to this, asio-devel has been added to the dependencies for the rb_libtorrent-devel package - a fix already applied to the Fedora 10, 11, and Development (Rawhide) packages.
ChangeLog:
* Sun Jun 14 2009 Peter Gordon - 0.12.1-2
- Apply backported upstream patch to fix CVE-2009-1760 (arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability):
+ 0.12-CVE-2009-1760.diff
- Fixes security bug #505523.
- Add asio-devel as runtime dependency for the devel subpackage (#478589)
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1760 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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