<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!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>2007-05-01</announced> <revised count="01">2007-05-01</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 ">=net-p2p/ktorrent-2.1.3"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1384">CVE-2007-1384</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1385">CVE-2007-1385</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1799">CVE-2007-1799</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-04-24T19:42:10Z"> aetius </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-04-26T07:58:35Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-04-26T07:59:01Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>