High severity · published May 15, 2020
CVE-2018-10756
Use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission before 3.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a…
7.8
CVSS
2.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission before 3.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted torrent file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.7% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31; 32 · source: NVD
TR
Transmission · Transmissionbt
before 3.00 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10756
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10756
Patch
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/commit/2123adf8e5e1c2b48791f9d22fc8c747e974180e
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00022.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00001.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CD3GLZ5URIK74RCGLSH72IVLDIJJMLQC/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OVAG2HNKNRLWOACFN5F2ANJD2SQ53WI7/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-07
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