Re: CVE request: Transmission can be made to crash remotely

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 02/11/2013 06:47 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Yves-Alexis,
>
> to follow up on this one. The source of the issue seems to be
> underlying libutp code: [1]
> https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/5002#comment:22
>
> more specifically the way how libutp (previously) handled selective
> acknowledgements, which resulted in following two (libutp)
> patches: [2] https://github.com/bittorrent/libutp/issues/38 [3]
> https://github.com/bittorrent/libutp/issues/37
>
> Transmission upstream corrected this issue in v2.74: [4]
> https://trac.transmissionbt.com/query?milestone=2.74&group=component&order=severity
>
>  with the following patch: [5]
> https://trac.transmissionbt.com/changeset/13646
>
> Ad assigning CVE ids - I think one CVE id is enough. The problem is
> in libutp code, and Transmission upstream seems to commit their own
> change only due to libutp (un)responsiveness: [6]
> https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/5002#comment:32
>
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
>
> P.S.: All the links from above at one place are at: [7]
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909934
>
> ----- Original Message ----- On dim., 2013-02-10 at 11:50 +0100,
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Package: transmission-daemon Version: 2.52-3 Severity: grave 
> > Tags: security patch upstream Justification: user security hole
> >
> > The transmission-daemon package in wheezy crashes regularly.
> > According to upstream this is a remote security hole (at least a
> > remote DoS, but most probably there is a way to take control of
> > the process).
> >
> > https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/5044 
> > https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/5002
> >
> > Apparently there is no CVE assigned. The bug is fixed upstream
> > and I’m attaching the patch. I’m currently testing a patched
> > package, and will report whether the fix is sufficient.
> >
> > Could a CVE be assigned for this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, -- Yves-Alexis

Please use CVE-2012-6129  for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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