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KTorrent Two Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA24486
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Release Date:
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2007-03-12
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Last Update:
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2007-05-02
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Popularity:
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6,255 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Manipulation of data
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | KTorrent 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-1384
CVE-2007-1385
CVE-2007-1799
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in KTorrent, which can be exploited by malicious people to overwrite arbitrary files on a user's system or to potentially compromise a user's system.
1) An input validation error when processing paths of filenames within torrents can be exploited to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application via directory traversal attacks.
2) An error in the processing of messages with invalid chunk indexes can be exploited to corrupt memory and may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Solution:
Update to version 2.1.3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Bryan Burns, Juniper Networks.
Changelog:
2007-03-13: Updated "Description" section.
2007-04-03: Added CVE references.
2007-05-02: Updated "Solution" due to an incorrect fix of vulnerability #1, reported by Matt Drew. Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://ktorrent.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1401
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