Kazaa to patch "serious vulnerability"

[Miramonti]

story

Users of file sharing programs such as Kazaa and iMesh are urged to install a security patch after a serious bug was discovered in their underlying network.

A security researcher recently found a potentially critical vulnerability in the program which drives the FastTrack network. FastTrack is used by peer-to-peer software service including Kazaa and iMesh. Joltid, the maker of FastTrack, initially said the flaw was not serious, but has since done an about-face and plans to plug the loophole.

The makers of Kazaa will release a patch within the next 24 hours and are urging customers to install it as soon as possible.

According to the original security advisory, published on the Full Disclosure security mailing list, attackers can take control of or crash the FastTrack "supernodes" that file swappers connect to.

(sorry if its a repost, i looked)

 

[rh71]

I guess I'll hold off on that mpg search I wanted to do... I'm still running 1.7.x

 

[Anubis]

hummm ive been running kazaa for about 2 weeks straight with no troubles

 

[Miramonti]

me wonders if this is going to require a new version of kazaa lite.

 

[MainFramed]

Im running the latest version of Kazaa Lite, its rocks to....where to download the patch?

 

[Falloutboy]

i'm sure it will so i'm waiting for the kazza lite version of the patch before I even install it

 

[rudeguy]

I wouldnt install that thing...sounds like a nice way for them to track what you dl