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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2009:139 ] libtorrent-rasterbar Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake A security vulnerability has been identified and corrected in libtorrent-rasterbar: Directory traversal vulnerability in src/torrent_info.cpp in Rasterbar libtorrent before 0.14.4, as used in firetorrent, qBittorrent, deluge Torrent, and other applications, allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) and partial relative pathname in a Multiple File Mode list element in a .torrent file (CVE-2009-1760). The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2009:139
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Package : libtorrent-rasterbar
 Date    : June 24, 2009
 Affected: 2009.1
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Problem Description:

 A security vulnerability has been identified and corrected in
 libtorrent-rasterbar:
 
 Directory traversal vulnerability in src/torrent_info.cpp in Rasterbar
 libtorrent before 0.14.4, as used in firetorrent, qBittorrent, deluge
 Torrent, and other applications, allows remote attackers to create
 or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) and partial relative
 pathname in a Multiple File Mode list element in a .torrent file
 (CVE-2009-1760).
 
 The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1760
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Linux 2009.1:
 018c83239c8d6d257e8f722abaf73ac4  2009.1/i586/libtorrent-rasterbar1-0.14.1-4.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm
 af514bb4fd8ff292d769ee200d1ca5f7  2009.1/i586/libtorrent-rasterbar-devel-0.14.1-4.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm
 26ef9d0a438bb34e12c301d25682c7c5  2009.1/i586/python-libtorrent-rasterbar-0.14.1-4.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm 
 be0c5e47f7a9205785bea2cb8e879c77  2009.1/SRPMS/libtorrent-rasterbar-0.14.1-4.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64:
 0d5fd577ea535f7f440f11b172d2a5f3  2009.1/x86_64/lib64torrent-rasterbar1-0.14.1-4.1mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm
 ddd105e9179360e4c6c5fb77cc2635db  2009.1/x86_64/lib64torrent-rasterbar-devel-0.14.1-4.1mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm
 bd3517f878999688492af5e93080df93  2009.1/x86_64/python-libtorrent-rasterbar-0.14.1-4.1mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm 
 be0c5e47f7a9205785bea2cb8e879c77  2009.1/SRPMS/libtorrent-rasterbar-0.14.1-4.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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