Use-after-free in Transmission - CVE-2018-10756

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Use-after-free in Transmission - CVE-2018-10756

Published: May 25, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU28196
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10756
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted .torrent file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


Affected software

Transmission
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
transmission (Alpine package)
transmission

How to mitigate CVE-2018-10756

Install update from vendor's website.

Transmission - update to 3.00
transmission (Alpine package) - update to 3.00-r0
transmission - addressed in versions master-3220200518170214.1, 2.94-9.el7, 2.94-9.el8, 2.94-9.fc31, 2.94-9.fc32

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