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HIGH Libtorrent CVE published 2017-02-07

CVE-2016-7164

CVE-2016-7164 is a remote denial-of-service vulnerability in libtorrent 1.1.x. A crafted GZIP response from a torrent tracker can trigger a segmentation fault in puff.cpp’s construct function, causing the application to crash. The NVD rates the issue HIGH with a CVSS v3.0 vector of AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.