CVE-2010-0012: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within a .torrent file.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.0 only; version 11.1 only; version 11.2 only
• Transmissionbt Transmission: version 1.22 only; version 1.34 only; version 1.75 only; version 1.76 only

Published 2010-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.