Ktorrent: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

Ktorrent is a Bittorrent client for KDE.

Description

Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks discovered a vulnerability in chunkcounter.cpp when processing large or negative idx values, and a directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to download a specially crafted torrent file, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Ktorrent.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ktorrent users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/ktorrent-2.1.3"