Vigil@nce - Transmission: use after free via variant.c
July 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on client.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 20/05/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force the usage of a freed memory area in
variant.c of Transmission, in order to trigger a denial of
service, and possibly to run code.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Transmission-use-after-free-via-variant-c-32305