Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in transmission:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Transmission 1.5 before 1.53 and 1.6 before 1.61 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors (CVE-2009-1757).
Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within a .torrent file (CVE-2010-0012).
The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
Affected
transmission on Mandriva Linux 2009.1,
Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1757, CVE-2010-0012 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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