This exploit triggers a denial of service in rtorrent 0.9.6 by sending a malformed bencode handshake with an excessively large string length, causing a malloc failure and subsequent segfault.
Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target:rtorrent <= 0.9.6
No auth needed
Prerequisites:Network access to target rtorrent client