Posts Tagged ‘Luigi Auriemma’

uTorrent and Official BitTorrent Client Vulnerable to Remote DOS Attack

Both the official BitTorrent and uTorrent clients are vulnerable to a remote denial-of-service attack, due to the way they handle user-supplied data. Versions found to be vulnerable so far are the official BitTorrent 6.0 client,
uTorrent 1.7.x, uTorrent 1.6.x and uTorrent 1.8-alpha-7834.