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TITLE:
Rasterbar Software libtorrent Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35277

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35277/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Rasterbar Software libtorrent,
which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise
an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to the library insufficiently
sanitising path elements extracted in Multiple File Mode. This can be
exploited to potentially create or overwrite arbitrary files via path
elements containing directory traversal sequences, included in a
specially crafted ".torrent" file.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.14.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.14.4.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
census

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=79942&release_id=686456

http://census-labs.com/news/2009/06/08/libtorrent-rasterbar/

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