CVE-2008-0364

high

Description

Buffer overflow in (1) BitTorrent 6.0 and earlier; and (2) uTorrent 1.7.5 and earlier, and 1.8-alpha-7834 and earlier in the 1.8.x series; on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long Unicode string representing a client version identifier.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39720

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39719

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486426/100/0/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3554

http://secunia.com/advisories/28537

http://secunia.com/advisories/28533

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=29330

http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.6/utorrent-1.7.6.txt

http://aluigi.org/poc/ruttorrent.zip

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-01-18

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0628