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CVE-2026-77639: Tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to a compression bomb bypass where an attacker could concatenate many gzip or zlib...

MEDIUM CVSS 0.0

Published: August 20, 2026 | Last Modified: August 20, 2026

Description

Tor before 0.4.9.9 was prone to a compression bomb bypass where an attacker could concatenate many gzip or zlib sub-streams, each just under the per-stream detection threshold, to avoid the compression bomb check entirely. This is TROVE-2026-022.

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