Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-7166

Title: Bittorrent Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-7166.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Sep 04, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.85%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-7166: Buffer overflow in the web interface in BitTorrent 6.0.1 (build 7859) and earlier, and uTorrent 1.7.6 (build 7859) and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted Range header. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0071 and CVE-2008-0364.

Impacted Vendors

utorrent 1

bittorrent 2

Reference Links

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent2-adv.txt http://osvdb.org/42825 http://osvdb.org/42826 http://secunia.com/advisories/28686 http://secunia.com/advisories/28695 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0326 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0327 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent2-adv.txt http://osvdb.org/42825 http://osvdb.org/42826 http://secunia.com/advisories/28686 http://secunia.com/advisories/28695 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0326 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0327

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-2008-7166 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 04, 2009 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.