critical
9.3
CWE
119
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2008-4434: Buffer Overflow

First published: Fri Oct 03 2008(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
BitTorrent=1.4
BitTorrent=1.4.2
BitTorrent=1.7.3
BitTorrent=1.2.2
BitTorrent=1.6
BitTorrent=1.3
BitTorrent=1.7.4
BitTorrent=1.1.1
BitTorrent=1.7.2
BitTorrent=1.1.6
BitTorrent<=1.7.7
BitTorrent=1.5
BitTorrent=1.1.3
BitTorrent=1.1.5
BitTorrent=1.7.5
BitTorrent=1.2.1
BitTorrent=1.2
BitTorrent=1.1.7
BitTorrent=1.7
BitTorrent=1.1.4
BitTorrent=1.7.1
BitTorrent=1.7.6
BitTorrent=4.0.4
BitTorrent=4.20.4
BitTorrent=4.27.2
BitTorrent=4.1.3
BitTorrent=4.3.2
BitTorrent=4.26.0
BitTorrent=5.2.0
BitTorrent=5.0.8
BitTorrent=4.20.7
BitTorrent=5.0.0
BitTorrent=4.0.1
BitTorrent=4.1.0
BitTorrent=4.1.4
BitTorrent=4.3.0
BitTorrent=6.0
BitTorrent=4.9.4
BitTorrent=4.20.2
BitTorrent=4.20.1
BitTorrent=4.3.1
BitTorrent=4.3.4
BitTorrent=4.2.0
BitTorrent=4.0.2
BitTorrent=4.9.6
BitTorrent=4.22.1
BitTorrent=4.2.2
BitTorrent=4.1.6
BitTorrent=5.0.6
BitTorrent=6.0.2
BitTorrent=4.20.0
BitTorrent=4.2.1
BitTorrent=4.9.7
BitTorrent=4.9.9
BitTorrent=6.0.1
BitTorrent=3.9.1
BitTorrent=4.9.3
BitTorrent=4.1.2
BitTorrent=5.0.3
BitTorrent=5.0.4
BitTorrent=4.4.1
BitTorrent=4.1.7
BitTorrent=4.20.3
BitTorrent=4.22.4
BitTorrent=4.0.0
BitTorrent=4.22.0
BitTorrent=5.0.1
BitTorrent=4.24.0
BitTorrent=4.3.3
BitTorrent=4.24.2
BitTorrent<=6.0.3
BitTorrent=4.1.5
BitTorrent=5.0.7
BitTorrent=5.0.5
BitTorrent=4.3.5
BitTorrent=4.20.9
BitTorrent=4.27.1
BitTorrent=4.9.8
BitTorrent=4.9.2
BitTorrent=4.9.5
BitTorrent=4.1.1
BitTorrent=4.1.8
BitTorrent=4.3.6
BitTorrent=4.20.6
BitTorrent=4.20.8
BitTorrent=4.0.3
BitTorrent=5.0.9
BitTorrent=5.0.2
BitTorrent=4.4.0

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