uTorrent 1.6.1 update fixes remote exploit

Martin — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:37:13 +0000

I’m so glad that I made the change from bitcomet to uTorrent some time ago because uTorrent is by far the most efficient bittorrent client that I could get my fingers on until now. I receive great speeds, it does not use many resources on my computer, heck the client is only 173 KB in size.

A new uTorrent version was released two days ago which fixes a remote exploit which was discovered earlier on. Hackers were able to manipulate torrent files which would cause a buffer overflow at the targets computer which would make it possible to execute code on it.

Just replace the new file with the old uTorrent file and everything should work as usual afterwards. The list of changes for uTorrent 1.6.1

Feature: Select upload/download speed for a torrent through the right-click menu
Feature: Added encryption box to speed guide- Change: Don’t check as many pieces at the same time.
Change: Misc WebUI changes.
Change: Switch to JSON for webinterface
Fix: Problem with category list in the gui when updated from the webui
Fix: WebUI not clearing state between requests.
Fix: Redirect also index.html to guest.html
Fix: Added On Now shows the time it’s added, not loaded.
Fix: JSON uses ” instead of ‘
Fix: (a) Upnp fix
Fix: Show pause icon when checking is paused.
Fix: Fixed problems with XML parser
Fix: Don’t allow two message boxes to be shown in the RSS window
Fix: Changed some window titles
Fix: Fix malformed .torrent exploit
Fix: Boss key field is now larger

source: TorrentFreak

Tags: remote exploit, torrent, utorrent, utorrent download, Windows

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