Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-014 - Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a. (dot dot) in a pathname within a.torrent file. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
23df28e11bb44fe8ffca6711696225f393a4868b5f12ee6db077eaf6cf096efeMandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-013 - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Transmission 1.5 before 1.53 and 1.6 before 1.61 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors. Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a. (dot dot) in a pathname within a.torrent file. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
645f6e2956cd21abc6897932877a4cf16624d8a5590ec9be9a0d461297efda51Ubuntu Security Notice 885-1 - It was discovered that the Transmission web interface was vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted web page in a browser while Transmission was running, an attacker could trigger commands in Transmission. This issue affected Ubuntu 9.04. Dan Rosenberg discovered that Transmission did not properly perform input validation when processing torrent files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted torrent file, an attacker could overwrite files via directory traversal.
69acb157bcde280488cb2e36985fb02edf668493426e074cb560fc966af289bbDebian Linux Security Advisory 1967-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that Transmission, a lightwight client for the Bittorrent filesharing protocol performs insufficient sanitising of file names specified in .torrent files. This could lead to the overwrite of local files with the privileges of the user running Transmission if the user is tricked into opening a malicious torrent file.
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