Thread: µTorrent 1.7.7 Stable Fixes Security Issues

The vulnerability was discovered by Luigi Auriemma, a Milan-based security expert. He claimed that various BitTorrent clients were subject to this security flaw, based on the way they handle user-supplied data. The vulnerability was not critical, but it did allow attackers to remotely crash the application.

In a response, the uTorrent team stated that several of the older uTorrent releases were also affected. Luckily, they quickly released a new build - uTorrent 1.7.6 (build 7859), in which they fixed the issue, and the latest stable release is now safe as well.

The latest stable release of uTorrent adresses both the remote crash bug in WebUI and the (potential) remote crash bug with extension protocol. In the release notes we read: “1.7.7 is released to fix some potential security exploits. Barring any other security issues before the release of 1.8, this will be the last 1.7.x release.”



The latest stable release can be downloaded http://utorrent.com/download.php, upgrading is of course recommended.

thanks..