Bug 429375 (CVE-2008-0364) - CVE-2008-0364 Bittorent uses wcscpy() unsafely
Summary: CVE-2008-0364 Bittorent uses wcscpy() unsafely
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2008-0364
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-18 23:02 UTC by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified: 2008-01-18 23:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-01-18 23:04:41 UTC
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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().
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