Use After Free Affecting transmission/transmission package, versions [,3.00)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.38% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TRANSMISSIONTRANSMISSION-2365953
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 May 2020

CVE-2018-10756  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade transmission/transmission to version 3.00 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission before 3.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted torrent file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1