alt Hacker NewsNot custom. It's an existing module for a format called VPK. It's a quite trivial bug though, not exploitable apart from DOS and won't ever happen in a real file.
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LoganDark • today at 3:21 AM
I thought you meant Disk Operating System until I realized you probably meant DoS
I even question if it is a DOS vector. So the thread crashes and then the system that controls the threads cleans it up and opens a new thread. Seems to be a trivial impact, unless it locks up the thread somehow.