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Bug 269605 (CVE-2009-1757)

Summary: <net-p2p/transmission-1.61 potential CSRF security hole for Web Client users (CVE-2009-1757)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) <ssuominen>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.transmissionbt.com/
Whiteboard: C3 [noglsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-12 18:11:47 UTC
Transmission 1.61 Released!

All Platforms

    * Close potential CSRF security hole for Web Client users

Transmission 1.53 Released!
All Platforms

    * Close potential CSRF security hole for Web Client users
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-12 18:56:59 UTC
+*transmission-1.61 (12 May 2009)
+
+  12 May 2009; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
+  +transmission-1.61.ebuild:
+  Version bump wrt security #269605.

Please test and mark stable.
Comment 2 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-13 10:03:43 UTC
I did something wrong: Using Torrent -> New -> Entering a torrent URI as source -> New leads to a segmentation fault in all transmission versions (no regression, just for your information).  And that's wrong anyway. :)
Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-13 10:09:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I did something wrong: Using Torrent -> New -> Entering a torrent URI as source
> -> New leads to a segmentation fault in all transmission versions (no
> regression, just for your information).  And that's wrong anyway. :)
> 

Thanks, I will try to reproduce this and will report it to transmissionbt's trac (which I'm registered in)
Comment 4 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-13 10:15:27 UTC
x86 stable
Comment 5 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2009-05-13 18:31:49 UTC
amd64 stable
Comment 6 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-14 18:40:50 UTC
Marked ppc stable.
Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-19 09:24:02 UTC
And vuln. versions removed from tree.
Comment 8 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-22 17:39:31 UTC
Ready for vote, I vote YES.
Comment 9 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-05-24 17:05:16 UTC
CVE-2009-1757 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1757):
  Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Transmission 1.5
  before 1.53 and 1.6 before 1.61 allows remote attackers to hijack the
  authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors.

Comment 10 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-25 19:36:28 UTC
I vote NO. CSRF in a client application that comes with a web interface? ...
Comment 11 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-29 07:24:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> I vote NO. CSRF in a client application that comes with a web interface? ...
> 

Yes, it is.
Comment 12 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2009-06-12 22:21:36 UTC
No, too. Reopen, if you feel to.