µTorrent exploit revealed

[torrentslave]

According to IT security experts, the latest version of uTorrent is vulnerable to remote exploits.

Today brings news that the popular BitTorrent client server uTorrent is vulnerable to hackers that can infiltrate your PC and execute arbitr ary code if a user opens a manipulated torrent tracker file.

The apparent "glitch" in the software is that torrent tracker fields may contain an "announce" field. Well, if this "announce" field is longer than 4800 bytes, an internal µTorrent buffer overflows, thereby allowing hackers to run their exploits.

For now it's only µTorrent 1.6 build 474 that is affected but, older versions may also contain the bug, and a new version to fix the problem is not yet available.

Source: http://digg.com/tech_news/mTorrent_g...ploit_revealed

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got this info on another forum

[gamer4eva]

That sucks.....going to switch now!!!!

[Niteghost]

Just lost my appetite, SUCKS bigtime, I guess Azueus

[Jab]

Apparently works on XP SP1 and w2k sp1-4

[gamer4eva]

Well it only affects those with announce higher than 4800bytes whatever that means.....

[Acidice]

hmm... how prominent is this? I really don't wanna switch to the cpu-consuming AZ

[gamer4eva]

hmm... how prominent is this? I really don't wanna switch to the cpu-consuming AZ

Neither do i......

[Shadowfire]

Heh, and with this, uT does downhill ........

[gamer4eva]

Heh, and with this, uT does downhill ........

Utorrent began to go downhill when it sold out....

[torrentslave]

yep sucks big harry balls!!!!