metadata/glsa/glsa-200907-14.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200907-14">
  <title>Rasterbar libtorrent: Directory traversal</title>
  <synopsis>
    A directory traversal vulnerability in Rasterbar libtorrent might allow a
    remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">rb_libtorrent deluge</product>
  <announced>July 17, 2009</announced>
  <revised>July 17, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>273156</bug>
  <bug>273961</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-libs/rb_libtorrent" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.13-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.13-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="net-p2p/deluge" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.9</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.9</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Rasterbar libtorrent is a C++ BitTorrent implementation focusing on
    efficiency and scalability. Deluge is a BitTorrent client that ships a
    copy of libtorrent.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    census reported a directory traversal vulnerability in
    src/torrent_info.cpp that can be triggered via .torrent files.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system using
    Rasterbar libtorrent to load a specially crafted BitTorrent file to
    create or overwrite arbitrary files using dot dot sequences in
    filenames.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Rasterbar libtorrent users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-libs/rb_libtorrent-0.13-r1&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All Deluge users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-p2p/deluge-1.1.9&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1760">CVE-2009-1760</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:55:00 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:02:27 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:51:09 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>