Debian DSA-1373-1 Critical: Ktorrent Directory Traversal Risk
debian
September 11, 2007
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.
Topics Covered
Summary
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.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
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