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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200705-01.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200705-01">
<title>Ktorrent: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ktorrent allowing for the
remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">ktorrent</product>
<announced>May 01, 2007</announced>
<revised>May 01, 2007: 01</revised>
<bug>170303</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-p2p/ktorrent" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.1.3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.1.3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Ktorrent is a Bittorrent client for KDE.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks discovered a vulnerability in
chunkcounter.cpp when processing large or negative idx values, and a
directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could entice a user to download a specially crafted
torrent file, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running Ktorrent.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Ktorrent users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-p2p/ktorrent-2.1.3&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1384">CVE-2007-1384</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1385">CVE-2007-1385</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1799">CVE-2007-1799</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:42:10 +0000">
aetius
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:58:35 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:59:01 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>