CVE-2010-1853: Transmissionbt Transmission

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the tr_magnetParse function in libtransmission/magnet.c in Transmission 1.91 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted magnet URL with a large number of (1) tr or (2) ws links.

Affected products

• Transmissionbt Transmission: version 1.91 only

Published 2010-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.