GO-2026-6894

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    GO-2026-6894

    Published: 5 Nov 2026Last Modified: 5 Nov 2026

    Summary: anacrolix torrent has unbounded recursion in the bencode decoder that causes stack-overflow crash and CPU-exhaustion DoS in github.com/anacrolix/torrent

    Details: anacrolix torrent has unbounded recursion in the bencode decoder that causes stack-overflow crash and CPU-exhaustion DoS in github.com/anacrolix/torrent

    References: https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/security/advisories/GHSA-2wrx-84qj-4pcg, https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/commit/76452a2c8a2fd9c59d4d4f10fc3495723d538c7b

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/anacrolix/torrent

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/anacrolix/torrent

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.61.1-0.20260911233437-76452a2c8a2f

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
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