PT-2009-2633 · Bittorrent · Utorrent

Luigi Auriemma · Published 2009-09-04 · Updated 2009-09-09 · CVE-2008-7166

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions uTorrent (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability was discovered that can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). The issue is due to an error in handling HTTP requests, specifically when the Range header string is overly long. This can cause the application to crash when multiple HTTP requests are sent. Successful exploitation requires the Web UI interface to be enabled.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-7166

Affected Products

Utorrent

References · 8

• http://secunia.com/advisories/28686 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0327 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28695 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7166 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0326 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/42825 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/42826 · Note
• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent2-adv.txt · Note