Buffer overflow in Bittorrent

CVE-2008-4434

Stack-based buffer overflow in (1) uTorrent 1.7.7 build 8179 and earlier and (2) BitTorrent 6.0.3 build 8642 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long Created By field in a .torrent file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.110 (95.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Bittorrent — versions 3.9.1, 4.0.0, 4.0.1
  • Utorrent — versions 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.4
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References