Description
Buffer overflow in (1) BitTorrent 6.0 and earlier; and (2) uTorrent 1.7.5 and earlier, and 1.8-alpha-7834 and earlier in the 1.8.x series; on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long Unicode string representing a client version identifier.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- BitTorrent 6.0 / uTorrent 1.6/1.7 - Peers Window Remote Code Execution EDB-31032 · remote · Jan 16, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 27321 vdb-entry
- http://aluigi.org/poc/ruttorrent.zip
- 28537 third-party-advisory
- 28533 third-party-advisory
- 20080116 Peers static overflow in BitTorrent 6.0 and uTorrent 1.7.5 mailing-list
- http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=29330
- 3554 third-party-advisory
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent-adv.txt
- utorrent-peers-bo(39720) vdb-entry
- http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.6/utorrent-1.7.6.txt
- bittorrent-peers-bo(39719) vdb-entry