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HIGH

GHSA-j35p-q24r-5367

Dep Group Remote Memory Exhaustion (Denial of Service) in ckb

Details

### Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust ckb process memory of an affected node.

### Patches Upgrade to 0.43.1 or later.

### References After resolving the outpoints of one dep group, we put the corresponding content into a vec ( https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/blob/v0.42.0/util/types/src/core/cell.rs#L600-L617 ), there is a vulnerability to a memory dos attack because there is no determination of whether the outpoints is duplicated.

PoC: ``` before send dos tx rss: 105700

after rss: 2306932 ```

DoS cost: 25.6 KB * 150 + dep_tx out_points capacity ( 36 * 150 * 100 = 540000 ) = 4380000 CKB Send 50 dos_tx, memory exhausted: (25.6 KB * 150 * 100) * 50 = 19.2 GB

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Affected packages

crates.io/ckb
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.43.1

Upgrade ckb to 0.43.1 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).

References