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Jorge
February 13th, 2007, 12:10 PM
According to IT security experts, the latest version of uTorrent is vulnerable to remote exploits.
<p>Today brings news that the popular BitTorrent client server uTorrent is vulnerable to hackers that can infiltrate your PC and execute arbitary code if a user opens a manipulated torrent tracker file.</p>
<p>The apparent "glitch" in the software is that torrent tracker fiels may contain an "announce" field. Well, if this "announce" field is longer than 4800 bytes, an internal &micro;Torrent buffer overflows, thereby allowing hackers to run their exploits. </p>
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DigitalJunkie
February 13th, 2007, 03:07 PM
I guess now we have to watch out for unfamiliar tracker & untrusted tracker sites in search for files!