A vulnerability was found in uTorrent 1.8.3 (Peer-to-Peer Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in the "create torrent dialog" functionality in uTorrent 1.8.3 build 15772, and possibly other versions before 1.8.3 (Build 16010), allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a text file containing a large string. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

The weakness was published 01/18/2013 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-5134 since 01/18/2013. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.8.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (52907) and OSVDB (89547†).

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• Peer-to-Peer Software

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• uTorrent

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• 1.8.3

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