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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201006-06">
+ <title>Transmission: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Stack-based buffer overflows in Transmission may allow for remote execution
+ of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">transmission</product>
+ <announced>2010-06-01</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2010-06-01</revised>
+ <bug>309831</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-p2p/transmission" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.92</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.92</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the tr_magnetParse() function
+ in libtransmission/magnet.c have been discovered.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service or possibly execute
+ arbitrary code via a crafted magnet URL with a large number of tr or ws
+ links.
+ </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-1.92"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1853">CVE-2010-1853</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2010-05-22T11:12:44Z">
+ craig
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2010-05-27T13:42:12Z">
+ keytoaster
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2010-05-27T17:53:20Z">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>