CVE-2008-7166

high

Description

Buffer overflow in the web interface in BitTorrent 6.0.1 (build 7859) and earlier, and uTorrent 1.7.6 (build 7859) and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted Range header. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0071 and CVE-2008-0364.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0327

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0326

http://secunia.com/advisories/28695

http://secunia.com/advisories/28686

http://osvdb.org/42826

http://osvdb.org/42825

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent2-adv.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-09-04

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: 0.01389