Bug 429375 (CVE-2008-0364)

Summary:	CVE-2008-0364 Bittorent uses wcscpy() unsafely
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	paul
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-0364
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2008-01-18 23:02:17 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-0364 to the following vulnerability:

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:

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

Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2008-01-18 23:04:41 UTC

This seems to be Windows-only. The exploit code does nothing to our bittorrent,
it is written in python and never calls wcscpy().