PT-2009-4230 · Libtorrent · Libtorrent

Census · Published 2009-06-11 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2009-1760

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: libtorrent versions prior to 0.14.4

Description: A directory traversal issue exists, allowing remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) and partial relative pathname in a Multiple File Mode list element in a .torrent file.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.14.4, update to version 0.14.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of .torrent files from untrusted sources until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1760

DSA-1815-1

Affected Products

Libtorrent

References · 15

• 🔥 http://census-labs.com/news/2009/06/08/libtorrent-rasterbar · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1760 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:139 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35277 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=79942&release_id=686456 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-1760 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1534 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/35262 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1760 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-14.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1815 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1760 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35848 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51008 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/504151/100/0/threaded · Note