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HistoryJul 26, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-2988-1 : transmission - security update

2014-07-2600:00:00
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7

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.04 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.1%

Ben Hawkes discovered that incorrect handling of peer messages in the Transmission bittorrent client could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2988. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(76843);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-4909");
  script_bugtraq_id(68487);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2988");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2988-1 : transmission - security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Ben Hawkes discovered that incorrect handling of peer messages in the
Transmission bittorrent client could result in denial of service or
the execution of arbitrary code."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/transmission"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2988"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the transmission packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.52-3+nmu2."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/07/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/07/26");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"transmission", reference:"2.52-3+nmu2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"transmission-cli", reference:"2.52-3+nmu2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"transmission-common", reference:"2.52-3+nmu2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"transmission-daemon", reference:"2.52-3+nmu2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"transmission-dbg", reference:"2.52-3+nmu2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"transmission-gtk", reference:"2.52-3+nmu2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"transmission-qt", reference:"2.52-3+nmu2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxtransmissionp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:transmission
debiandebian_linux7.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.04 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.1%