From: "Pavel Janík" <Pavel@Janik.cz>
To: Simon Liu <simon@bitcartel.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Draft] Datastream compression of Blocks and Transactions
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 07:47:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AF49F870-0600-47D1-8AC6-EEBFAA5B1C24@Janik.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565E30C6.1010002@bitcartel.com>
> On 02 Dec 2015, at 00:44, Simon Liu <simon@bitcartel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Matt/Pavel,
>
> Why is it scary/undesirable? Thanks.
Select your preferable compression library and google for it with +CVE.
E.g. in zlib:
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/product_id-1820/GNU-Zlib.html
…allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted compressed stream…
…allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash)…
etc.
Do you want to expose such lib to the potential attacker?
--
Pavel Janík
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-02 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-30 23:12 [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Draft] Datastream compression of Blocks and Transactions Peter Tschipper
2015-12-01 5:28 ` Matt Corallo
2015-12-01 20:06 ` Pavel Janík
[not found] ` <565E30C6.1010002@bitcartel.com>
2015-12-02 6:47 ` Pavel Janík [this message]
2015-12-02 7:33 ` Simon Liu
2015-12-02 18:45 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-12-02 18:57 ` Emin Gün Sirer
2015-12-02 20:16 ` Peter Tschipper
2015-12-02 22:23 ` Matt Corallo
2015-12-02 23:02 ` Peter Tschipper
2015-12-04 13:30 ` Matt Corallo
2015-12-03 19:14 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-12-03 23:07 ` Rusty Russell
2015-12-02 23:05 ` Peter Tschipper
2015-12-03 5:52 ` Dave Scotese
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