[Secure-testing-team] Bug#837338: libtorrent-rasterbar: CVE-2016-7164: egmentation fault caused by malformed GZIP encoded response

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libtorrent-rasterbar
Version: 1.1.0-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream patch
Forwarded: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/1021

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libtorrent-rasterbar.

CVE-2016-7164[0]:
inflate_gzip denial of service

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7164
[1] https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/1021
[2] https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/commit/debf3c6e3688aab8394fe5c47737625faffe6f9e

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. In
particular jessie's version has not been looked at.

Regards,
Salvatore