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Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2016 02:56:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: yi@...i.me
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request : Libtorrent 1.1.0 inflate_gzip denial of service

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> I recently opened a bug on "Libtorrent 1.1.0" regarding malformed GZIP
> encoded responses that causes  denial of service.
> 
> For example, an attacker-controlled torrent tracker can crash victim torrent 
> clients by sending malformed GZIP responses.
> 
> This bug has been fixed by the maintainer in master and the branch RC_1_1:
> 
> https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/1021
> 
> https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/1022
> 
> I also tested the bug with two "Libtorrent based" softwares :
> qBittorrent and Deluge. Both of them were affected and crashed on
> receiving the malformed response.

> https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/commit/debf3c6e3688aab8394fe5c47737625faffe6f9e
> 
> puff.cpp

Use CVE-2016-7164.

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