Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0364

Title: Bittorrent Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-0364

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jan 18, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.89%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0364: Buffer overflow in (1) BitTorrent 6.0 and earlier; and (2) uTorrent 1.7.5 and earlier, and 1.8-alpha-7834 and earlier in the 1.8.x series; on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long Unicode string representing a client version identifier.

Impacted Vendors

utorrent 1

bittorrent 2

Reference Links

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent-adv.txt http://aluigi.org/poc/ruttorrent.zip http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.6/utorrent-1.7.6.txt http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=29330 http://secunia.com/advisories/28533 http://secunia.com/advisories/28537 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3554 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486426/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27321 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39719 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39720 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent-adv.txt http://aluigi.org/poc/ruttorrent.zip http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.6/utorrent-1.7.6.txt http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=29330 http://secunia.com/advisories/28533 http://secunia.com/advisories/28537 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3554 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486426/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27321 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39719 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39720

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0364 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31032

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 18, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.