glsa-201806-07.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201806-07">
  <title>Transmission: Remote code execution </title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Transmission could allow a remote attacker to
    execute arbitrary RPC commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">transmission</product>
  <announced>2018-06-20</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-06-20</revised>
  <bug>644406</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-p2p/transmission" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.93</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.93</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability was discovered in how Transmission handles access
      control through the X-Transmission-Session-Id.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could execute arbitrary RFC commands or consequently
      conduct a DNS rebinding attack.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Transmission users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-p2p/transmission-"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5702">CVE-2018-5702</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-06-11T15:35:43Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-06-20T00:24:22Z">irishluck83</metadata>
</glsa>