Great - we have over a dozen payload maps affected by this.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Ross Bemrose <[email protected]> wrote:

>  For those of you wondering, it was also pushed to TF2 in today's update,
> which means maps like pl_cashworks_final1 are broken because they are
> larger than 64MB uncompressed.
>
>
> On 4/24/2014 10:58 PM, Daniel Barreiro wrote:
>
>  I reported it to Eric.  It's an issue with how they fixed the
> decompressed file size check.
>
>  A TL;DR of the entire situation is I found an exploit that allowed you
> to zip-bomb clients over fastdl. Reported it. They fixed it by making
> FastDL listen to net_maxfilesize. Net_maxfilesize is engine-locked to 64MB,
> which means even if the map is sent over FastDL, if the uncompressed file
> is more than 64MB, it wont download it on the client.
>
>  I sent him an email about this issue this caused, and asked if they
> could whitelist BSP files.  The zip-bomb exploit wont work with BSPs as you
> can only send a single bsp file over FastDL per connect, and the server has
> to be running the map. That would cause the exploit to not work.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Bubka3 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is anyone having issues with map downloads after this? It says the map is
>> missing. I checked my FastDL web server logs and it returned HTTP 200 to
>> the client.
>>
>>    Eric Smith <[email protected]>
>>  Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:14 PM
>>    The updates have been released.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>
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>> Subject: [hlds_announce] Mandatory CS:S, DoD:S, and HL2:DM updates coming
>> soon
>>
>> We're releasing mandatory updates for CS:S, DoD:S, and HL2:DM. The notes
>> for the updates are below. The new version for each game will be 2198641.
>>
>> The updates should be out in about 15 minutes.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> ======================
>>
>> - Fixed an issue where plugin_load may load a non-binary file type
>> - Fixed an issue where decompressed file sizes were not being checked by
>> the engine
>>
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