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Critical Vulnerability Discovered in uTorrent/BitTorrent

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:22 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
A vulnerability described as ‘critical’ has been discovered in versions of uTorrent and the official BitTorrent client. The ‘buffer overflow’ vulnerability can be exploited to compromise a user’s computer for the execution of arbitrary code. It is suggested that users should immediately update to uTorrent version 1.8 RC7 or higher. There is currently no fix for the official client.
torrentfreak.com

Damn another vulnerability discovered, I guess it's time for me to upgrade to v1.8.