PT-2014-8572 · Bittorrent · Bittorrent Bootstrap

Daejin Lee · Published 2014-10-29 · Updated 2014-11-03 · CVE-2014-8509

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet. This is related to "Improper Indexing" and triggers an out-of-bounds read in the lazy bdecode function.

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

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8509

ZDI-14-370

Affected Products

Bittorrent Bootstrap

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/bittorrent/bootstrap-dht/commit/bbc0b7191e3f48461ca6e5b1b34bdf4b3f1e79a9 · Exploit
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-370 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8509 · Security Note
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-370 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/70812 · Note