PT-2020-8517 · Unknown+1 · Transmission+1

Tom Richards · Published 2020-05-15 · Updated 2020-10-07 · CVE-2018-10756

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Transmission versions prior to 3.00

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted torrent file. This is due to a use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 3.00, update to version 3.00 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of crafted torrent files until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-2868

ALT-PU-2020-2957

CVE-2018-10756

DLA-2218-1

DLA-2305-1

MGASA-2020-0235

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Transmission

References · 22

• 🔥 https://tomrichards.net/2020/05/cve-2018-10756-transmission · Exploit
• https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/2123adf8e5e1c2b48791f9d22fc8c747e974180e · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10756 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CD3GLZ5URIK74RCGLSH72IVLDIJJMLQC · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0235.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-10756 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10756 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2305-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10756 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-07 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2020-0235 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10756 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/OVAG2HNKNRLWOACFN5F2ANJD2SQ53WI7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2218-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10756 · Vendor Advisory