CVE-2014-4909 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://inertiawar.com/submission.go 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 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/Changesversion-2.84 https://twitter.com/benhawkes/statuses/484378151959539712