uTorrent Peer Client Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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    uTorrent Peer Client Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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                                 Luigi Auriemma
    
    Applications: BitTorrent and uTorrent
                  http://www.bittorrent.com
                  http://www.utorrent.com
    Versions:     BitTorrent <= 6.0 (build 5535)
                  uTorrent <= 1.7.5 (build 4602)
                  uTorrent <= 1.8-alpha-7834
                  uTorrent 1.6.x NOT vulnerable
    Platforms:    Windows confirmed
                  Mac and Linux (both available only on BitTorrent) have
                  not been tested
    Bug:          unicode static buffer-overflow
    Exploitation: remote
    Date:         16 Jan 2008
    Author:       Luigi Auriemma
                  e-mail: aluigi@autistici.org
                  web:    aluigi.org
    
    
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    1) Introduction
    2) Bug
    3) The Code
    4) Fix
    
    
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    1) Introduction
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    BitTorrent and uTorrent are the most used clients for the bittorrent
    protocol and are both built over the same code base derived by
    uTorrent.
    
    
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    2) Bug
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    By default both the clients have the "Detailed Info" window active with
    the "General" section visible in it where are reported various
    informations about the status of the torrent and the trackers in use.
    
    In this same window near "General" there is also the "Peers" section
    which is very useful since it showes many informations about the other
    connected clients like the percentage of availability of the shared
    torrent, their IP address, country, speed and amount of downloaded and
    uploaded data and moreover the version of their client (like
    "BitTorrent 6.0", "Azureus 3.0.3.4", "uTorrent 1.7.5", "KTorrent 2.2.4"
    and so on).
    
    When this window is visualized by the user the unicode strings with the
    software versions of the connected clients are copied in the relative
    static buffers used for the visualization in the GUI through the
    wcscpy function.
    
    If this string is too long a crash will occur immediately or in some
    cases (like on BitTorrent) could happen later or when the user watches
    the status of another torrent or leaves the "Peers" window.
    
    UPDATE 25 Jan 2008
    Secunia has performed additional tests on the vulnerability and has
    found that code execution is possible.
    
    For exploiting the problem is enough that an external attacker connects
    to the random port opened on the client and sends the long client
    version and the SHA1 hash of the torrent currently in use and watched
    on the target.
    Note that all these parameters (client IP, port and torrent's hash) are
    publicly available on the tracker.
    
    
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    3) The Code
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    http://aluigi.org/poc/ruttorrent.zip
    
    
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    4) Fix
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    uTorrent 1.7.6 (build 7859) released the same day I reported the
    vulnerability, great job!
    
    UPDATE 25 Jan 2008
    BitTorrent 6.0.1 released
    
    
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    Whoever here uses uTorrent or the original BitTorrent cilent make sure to get the latest versions that were posted in
    The Fix section in the code below. Look at your peers list when downloading, look at their versions and have fun.

    uTorrent 1.7.6 (build 7859) is the latest and BitTorrent 6.0.1 which was released 2 days ago.
    © underground.com​
     
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    let's go.
    run in command line ruttorrent.exe

    ruttorrent file.torrent 127.0.0.1 6881

    ruttorrent 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567 localhost 1234
     
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