CVE-2009-5134

medium
Published 2013-01-18 Β· Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Buffer overflow in the "create torrent dialog" functionality in uTorrent 1.8.3 build 15772, and possibly other versions before 1.8.3 (Build 16010), allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a text file containing a large string. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or β€” if you've already worked around this in production β€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-9539 dos windows verified
Dr_IDE Β· 2009-08-28

ΞΌTorrent (uTorrent) 1.8.3 Build 15772 - Create New Torrent Buffer Overflow (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch β€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
utorrentutorrent1.8.3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.