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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64305
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-6619 (rb_libtorrent)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to rb_libtorrent;announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-6619.;Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to rb_libtorrent
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-6619.
Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.

Vulnerability Insight:
Update Information:

This release adds an upstream patch to fix a directory traversal vulnerability
which would allow a remote attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a
.. (dot dot) and partial relative pathname in a specially-crafted torrent.
In addition to this, asio-devel has been added to the dependencies for the
rb_libtorrent-devel package - a fix already applied to the Fedora 10, 11, and
Development (Rawhide) packages.
ChangeLog:

* Sun Jun 14 2009 Peter Gordon - 0.12.1-2

- Apply backported upstream patch to fix CVE-2009-1760 (arbitrary file
overwrite vulnerability):
+ 0.12-CVE-2009-1760.diff

- Fixes security bug #505523.

- Add asio-devel as runtime dependency for the devel subpackage (#478589)

Solution:
Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update rb_libtorrent' at the command line.

CVSS Score:
5.8

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1760
BugTraq ID: 35262
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35262
Bugtraq: 20090608 Rasterbar libtorrent arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504151/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1815 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1815
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-14.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:139
http://census-labs.com/news/2009/06/08/libtorrent-rasterbar/
http://secunia.com/advisories/35277
http://secunia.com/advisories/35848
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1534
XForce ISS Database: libtorrent-path-element-dir-traversal(51008)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51008
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