USN-1584-1: Transmission vulnerability
26 September 2012
Transmission could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Releases
Packages
- transmission - lightweight BitTorrent client
Details
Justin C. Klein Keane discovered that the Transmission web client
incorrectly escaped certain strings. If a user were tricked into opening a
specially crafted torrent file, an attacker could possibly exploit this to
conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
After a standard system update you need to restart Transmission to make
all the necessary changes.