Buffer overflow in Bittorrent
CVE-2008-0364
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.089 (95.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.089 · newest: 0.089 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bittorrent
- Utorrent — versions 1.8-alpha-7834
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27321 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry)
- aluigi.org/poc/ruttorrent.zip
- secunia.com/advisories/28537 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28533 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486426/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3554 (third-party-advisory)
- aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent-adv.txt (Exploit)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39720 (vdb-entry)
- download.utorrent.com/1.7.6/utorrent-1.7.6.txt