Vulnerability CVE-2014-4909
Published: 2014-07-29

Description:
Integer overflow in the tr_bitfieldEnsureNthBitAlloced function in bitfield.c in Transmission before 2.84 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted peer message, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Transmissionbt -> Transmission 
Gentoo -> Linux 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://twitter.com/benhawkes/statuses/484378151959539712
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-2.84
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118290
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516822
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2279-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68487
http://www.osvdb.org/108997
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/11/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/10/4
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2988
http://secunia.com/advisories/60527
http://secunia.com/advisories/60108
http://secunia.com/advisories/59897
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00011.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135539.html
http://inertiawar.com/submission.go
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