A vulnerability has been identified in uTorrent, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is due to a buffer overflow error when handling a "torrent" file containing an overly long "announce" URL, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted torrent file or visiting a malicious web page.
Affected Products
uTorrent version 1.6 build 474 and prior
