rKAnjEL Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Secunia has issued a highly critical alert for uTorrent in version 1.7.7, build 8179.“A vulnerability has been discovered in BitTorrent, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system,” it says.The vulnerability, originally discovered by Rhys Kidd and reported on Dailydave, “is caused due to the use of vulnerable uTorrent code,” says Secunia.A boundary error in the processing of .torrent files, “can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by tricking the user into opening a “.torrent” file containing an overly long ‘created by’ field.“Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.”The flaw is confirmed in version 1.7.7 (build 8179), but earlier versions may also be affected, adds Secunia.Solution?Update to version 1.8.0Source: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16706 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 That's just a scare to get us to update to the latest version? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rKAnjEL Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 That's just a scare to get us to update to the latest version? lolSo you think it's some sort to conspiracy to upgrade a free app to version 1.8 which is also free? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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