Comment 9 for bug 1324564

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wgroiss (wolfgang-groiss-gmx) wrote : Re: [Bug 1324564] Re: transmission-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV in gnutls_x509_crt_import()

Thank You for this information!
My private workaround is, to take "Deluge" instead for torrent-files;
since transmission is working again.

Best regards
Wolfgang

Am 2014-06-01 23:52, schrieb Paul Gauret:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1304004 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304004
>
> I guess #1304004 is marked private as it relates to a security package.
>
> Good news is that I found a workaround by downgrading to libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu1. So far Transmission is stable with it even under high load.
> Bad news is that this particular version has a couple of nasty security bugs and that you have to be extremely careful if downgrading, as this library is shared with many other applications and that you may be exposed.
>
> I will mark this bug as affecting libcurl3-gnutls and see what its
> maintainer thinks. My guess is that the security fixes recently applied
> somehow break Transmission.
>
>
> ** Also affects: curl (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>