Articles with tag: File Overwrite
                                            
                                        
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                            08.06.2009
                                                        
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                        Rasterbar libtorrent arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability
| CENSUS ID: | CENSUS-2009-0002 | 
| CVE ID: | CVE-2009-1760 | 
| Affected Products: | Any application that uses the Rasterbar Software libtorrent library (versions ≤ 0.14.3) for BitTorrent file downloads. | 
| Class: | Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23), Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure (CWE-228) | 
| Remote: | Yes | 
| Discovered by: | Dimitris Glynos | 
We have discovered an “arbitrary file overwrite” vulnerability in libtorrent that allows an attacker to create and modify arbitrary files (and directories) in remote systems, with the effective rights of the user executing the vulnerable libtorrent-based application.
