Secunia Security Advisory - defsec has discovered a vulnerability in uTorrent, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
uTorrent "announce" Option Buffer Overflow
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24130
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24130/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
uTorrent 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/13466/
DESCRIPTION:
defsec has discovered a vulnerability in uTorrent, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
".torrent" files and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer
overflow via a specially crafted ".torrent" file with an overly long
(greater than 4800 bytes) "announce" option.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.6 build 474. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted .torrent files.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
defsec
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3296
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