CVE-2008-0364

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Bittorrent: through 6.0
Utorrent: through 1.7.5; 1.8-alpha-7834

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/ruttorrent.zip
http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.6/utorrent-1.7.6.txt
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=29330
http://secunia.com/advisories/28533
http://secunia.com/advisories/28537
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3554
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486426/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27321
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39719
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39720
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent-adv.txt

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