Bug 429375 – CVE-2008-0364 Bittorent uses wcscpy() unsafely

Bug 429375 - (CVE-2008-0364) CVE-2008-0364 Bittorent uses wcscpy() unsafely

Summary:	CVE-2008-0364 Bittorent uses wcscpy() unsafely

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2008-0364

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2008-01-18 18:02 EST by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified:	2008-01-18 18:04 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-01-18 18:04:41 EST
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2008-01-18 18:02:17 EST

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 18:04:41 EST

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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