Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-4434

Title: Bittorrent RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-4434

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Oct 03, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

10.97%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-4434: Stack-based buffer overflow in (1) uTorrent 1.7.7 build 8179 and earlier and (2) BitTorrent 6.0.3 build 8642 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long Created By field in a .torrent file.

Impacted Vendors

bittorrent 2

utorrent 1

Reference Links

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=44003 http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/attachments/20080811/35d6194b/attachment-0001.pdf http://seclists.org/dailydave/2008/q3/0155.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31441 http://secunia.com/advisories/31445 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30653 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020664 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2340 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2341 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44404 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=44003 http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/attachments/20080811/35d6194b/attachment-0001.pdf http://seclists.org/dailydave/2008/q3/0155.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31441 http://secunia.com/advisories/31445 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30653 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020664 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2340 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2341 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44404

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-4434 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6787

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 03, 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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.