Comments on: Critical Vulnerability Discovered in uTorrent http://torrentfreak.com/critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:36:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Rhys /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-488212 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:05:47 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-488212 I discovered this vulnerability by doing some basic reverse engineering of uTorrent quite some time ago.

The vulnerability occurs because the coders of uTorrent continue to use a known unsafe memory API to move blocks of information around.

Is it a deliberate attempt by RIAA/MPAA etc? No, it’s just simply lazy coding.

Microsoft was hit by these same type of issues back in 2001-2003, but they took the time to update their code. uTorrent simply didn’t. They need to improve their internal secure coding techniques and improve developer training.

No conspiracy here, just laziness.

]]> By: pissed off /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-488044 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:37:14 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-488044 fuck this, I don’t want to upgrade to 1.8, that’s total bullshit that trackers are forcing us to switch to it, fucking bullshit, it’s flawed.

]]> By: Anonymous /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-486213 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:14:04 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-486213 Switch to Halite

]]> By: Marc /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-485919 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:49:57 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-485919 @70, yeah, since version 1.8 they have a trick built in. you cant cap your upload speed too low or else it severely limits your download, which can be a problem in some cases when you run into a torrent that is really slow downloading for example. its built in, no way of changing that, if you cap below 4-5 or 6 k/s, depending on the version you are trying, it limits your download speed big time. i tested this and then went back to 1.7.7, i am thinking of switching to something else anyway … deluge is supposed to be good too ???

]]> By: stuffies /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-485891 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:33:46 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-485891 Only n00bs would believe this bullshit.

]]> By: Anonymous /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-485883 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:54:03 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-485883 Hoe vindt u een kwetsbaarheid als het programma niet open source

]]> By: Anonymous /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-485882 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:53:34 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-485882 Comment trouvez-vous une vulnérabilité si le programme n’est pas open source

]]> By: Anonymous /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-485881 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:51:40 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-485881 How do you find a Vulnerability if the program is not open source

]]> By: Anonymous /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-485371 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:52:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-485371 Did you try using different trackers #70

]]> By: Anonimus /critical-vulnerability-discovered-in-utorrent-080812/#comment-485265 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:14:08 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=3719#comment-485265 Why they want to upgrade to v1.8 of utorrent? I think v1.8 have some bugs and they want more users to have v1.8 this way they can exploit this bug :)))

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