Download SETI@Home 3.08

SETI@Home is one of the most famous distributed computing projects. They are trying to discover signals from other life forms in data from large radio telescopes. They recently released a new client, which has been given version number 3.08, to fix a potential security issue. The following is stated in the release notes:

Version 3.08 is a precautionary security release. There was a potential buffer overrun in the networking code of the client that is fixed with version 3.08. Note that to exploit this vulnerability, a potential attacker would have to trick the client into contacting a fake server rather than the actual SETI@home server. To our knowledge, no SETI@home client has ever been attacked in this manner.

Thanks go to Berend-Jan Wever for finding this bug and demonstrating the exploit and to Steffen Zahn for helping to track it down in the code.[break]The following two flavors are available for download:
Macintosh
Windows