USN-1584-1: Transmission vulnerability
Publication date
26 September 2012
Overview
Transmission could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Releases
Packages
- transmission - lightweight BitTorrent client
Details
Justin C. Klein Keane discovered that the Transmission web client
incorrectly escaped certain strings. If a user were tricked into opening a
specially crafted torrent file, an attacker could possibly exploit this to
conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Justin C. Klein Keane discovered that the Transmission web client
incorrectly escaped certain strings. If a user were tricked into opening a
specially crafted torrent file, an attacker could possibly exploit this to
conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Update instructions
After a standard system update you need to restart Transmission to make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
---|---|---|---|
12.04 precise | transmission-common – 2.51-0ubuntu1.1 |
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