CVE-2007-1799

NameCVE-2007-1799
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp in KTorrent before 2.1.3 only checks for the ".." string, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via modified ".." sequences in a torrent filename, as demonstrated by "../" sequences, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-1384.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1373-1, DSA-1373-2
Debian Bugs432007

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ktorrent (PTS)buster5.1.1-1fixed
bullseye5.2.0-2fixed
bookworm22.12.3-1fixed
sid, trixie22.12.3-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ktorrentsourceetch2.0.3+dfsg1-2.2etch1DSA-1373-2
ktorrentsource(unstable)2.1.4.dfsg.1-1medium432007

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