CVE-2014-4909

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Integer overflow in the tr_bitfieldEnsureNthBitAlloced function in bitfield.c in Transmission before 2.84 allows remote

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 0.09187

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Affected Products & Versions

canonical ubuntu linuxall versions
fedoraproject fedoraall versions
gentoo linuxall versions
transmissionbt transmission<= 2.83
transmissionbt transmissionall versions

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Public Exploits & PoCs

pocinertiawar.com · submission.goinertiawar.com

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productmediumPnscan Binary Data Transmission Activity

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6.8

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

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

Published to NVD29 Jul 2014 · 02:55 PM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10272-1

usnUSN-2279-1

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135539.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00011.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/59897

http://secunia.com/advisories/60108

http://secunia.com/advisories/60527

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2988

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/10/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/11/5

http://www.osvdb.org/108997

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68487

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2279-1

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516822

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118290

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-2.84Vendor Advisory

https://twitter.com/benhawkes/statuses/484378151959539712

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