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Fedora 11 Update: rb_libtorrent-0.14.3-2.fc11 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora 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.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-6502
2009-06-18 10:56:33
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Name        : rb_libtorrent
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 0.14.3
Release     : 2.fc11
URL         : http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/
Summary     : A C++ BitTorrent library aiming to be the best alternative
Description :
rb_libtorrent is a C++ library that aims to be a good alternative to all
the other BitTorrent implementations around. It is a library and not a full
featured client, although it comes with a few working example clients.

Its main goals are to be very efficient (in terms of CPU and memory usage) as
well as being very easy to use both as a user and developer.

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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.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 12 2009 Peter Gordon  - 0.14.3-2
- Apply upstream patch to fix CVE-2009-1760 (arbitrary file overwrite
  vulnerability):
  + CVE-2009-1760.diff
- Fixes security bug #505523.
- Drop outdated Boost patch:
  - 0.13.1-boost.patch
* Mon Apr 27 2009 Peter Gordon  - 0.14.3-1
- Update to new upstream bug-fix release (0.14.3).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #505523 - CVE-2009-1760 rb_libtorrent: arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505523
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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