BitTorrent Clients Are A Security Risk, RIAA Probably Ecstatic

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/17/bittorrent-clients-are-a-security-risk-riaa-probably-ecstatic/

From the page: “BitTorrent clients uTorrent and the official BitTorrent client pose a security risk to users.

According to a report at Torrentfreak, both clients are vulnerable to a remote denial-of-service attack due to the way they handle user-supplied data. Versions found to be vulnerable so far are the official BitTorrent 6.0 client, uTorrent 1.7.x, uTorrent 1.6.x and uTorrent 1.8-alpha-7834.

The flaw allows an attacker to crash the application, however Code execution is not possible, meaning that its more of an annoyance than something that should cause BitTorrent users to panic.”