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17-01-2008, 07:07 PM
BitTorrent (http://www.bittorrent.com) and uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com) are "the most used clients for the bittorrent protocol and are both built over the same code base derived by uTorrent". A static buffer overflow is present in both BitTorrent and uTorrent clients, this overflow would allow a remote attacker to crash the clients.
http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5JP0C20N5W.html
http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5JP0C20N5W.html