Canonical has published details in a security notice about a Transmission vulnerability in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Linux distributions that has been fixed.
The Ubuntu developers have closed a small vulnerability with Transmission, the bittorent client used by default in the OS from Canonical, and users have been advised to upgrade their systems as soon as possible.
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