Hopefully they can push a fix.  Making BSPs whitelisted should solve the
issue. BSPs can't be affected by the exploit they were patching, so they
should be able to whitelist them with no issues.


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM, E. Olsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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