Re: Critical Vulnerability Discovered in uTorrent
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Originally Posted by Five
anybody else experience this?
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nope. I did upgrade (from a push prompt) the other day and all is well.
the problem kinda comes with the territory (buffer overflow exploit). plus, utorrent wants an open port & we are 'trusting each other blindly' sharing data packets. yep...thats a security issue - almost no matter what.
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The choice of programming language can have a profound effect on the occurrence of buffer overflows. As of 2008, among the most popular languages are C and its derivative, C++, with an enormous body of software having been written in these languages. C and C++ provide no built-in protection against accessing or overwriting data in any part of memory; more specifically, they do not check that data written to an array (the implementation of a buffer) is within the boundaries of that array. However, the standard C++ libraries provide many ways of safely buffering data, and technology to avoid buffer overflows also exists for C.
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Last edited by direwolf-pgh; 2008-08-16 at 12:19 AM.
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