Vulnerability record · CVE-2008-7166 · published 4 September 2009

CVE-2008-7166: Bittorrent memory buffer overflow vulnerability

Bittorrent · Bittorrent

Buffer overflow in the web interface in BitTorrent 6.0.1 (build 7859) and earlier, and uTorrent 1.7.6 (build 7859) and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted Range header. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0071 and CVE-2008-0364.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 2.8% · top 13.8% CWE-119 · Memory buffer overflow

5.0CVSS 2.0 base score

2.8%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

2Affected product versions listed by NVD

14References

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Bittorrent Bittorrent

Utorrent Utorrent

References

Link	Tags
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent2-adv.txt
http://osvdb.org/42825
http://osvdb.org/42826
http://secunia.com/advisories/28686	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28695	Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0326	Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0327	Vendor Advisory
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ruttorrent2-adv.txt
http://osvdb.org/42825
http://osvdb.org/42826
http://secunia.com/advisories/28686	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28695	Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0326	Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0327	Vendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2008-7166), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.