CVE-2016-7164

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7164
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7164.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7164
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-02-07T15:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-14T15:48:20.312447Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The construct function in puff.cpp in Libtorrent 1.1.0 allows remote torrent trackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted GZIP response.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/arvidn/libtorrent

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Affected versions

Other

libtorrent-1_1