µTorrent exploit revealed
According to IT security experts, the latest version of uTorrent is vulnerable to remote exploits.
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.
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 µTorrent buffer overflows, thereby allowing hackers to run their exploits.
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I guess now we have to watch out for unfamiliar tracker & untrusted tracker sites in search for files!
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