Secure testing team - May 2009 - Bug#530255: CVE-2009-1759: Stack-based buffer overflow in the btFiles::BuildFromMI function

Package: ctorrent
Severity: serious
Tags: security patch

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for ctorrent.

CVE-2009-1759[0]:
| Stack-based buffer overflow in the btFiles::BuildFromMI function
| (trunk/btfiles.cpp) in Enhanced CTorrent (aka dTorrent) 3.3.2 and
| probably earlier, and CTorrent 1.3.4, allows remote attackers to cause
| a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a
| Torrent file containing a long path.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1759
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-1759
Patch:
http://dtorrent.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dtorrent/dtorrent/trunk/btfiles.cpp?r1=296&r2=301&view=patch

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