DoS fix for mapOrphanTransactions

2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 9f12829042..8b11c2bbf0 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -159,13 +159,14 @@ void static ResendWalletTransactions()
 // mapOrphanTransactions
 //
 
-void static AddOrphanTx(const CDataStream& vMsg)
+void AddOrphanTx(const CDataStream& vMsg)
 {
     CTransaction tx;
     CDataStream(vMsg) >> tx;
     uint256 hash = tx.GetHash();
     if (mapOrphanTransactions.count(hash))
         return;
+
     CDataStream* pvMsg = mapOrphanTransactions[hash] = new CDataStream(vMsg);
     BOOST_FOREACH(const CTxIn& txin, tx.vin)
         mapOrphanTransactionsByPrev.insert(make_pair(txin.prevout.hash, pvMsg));
@@ -193,6 +194,23 @@ void static EraseOrphanTx(uint256 hash)
     mapOrphanTransactions.erase(hash);
 }
 
+int LimitOrphanTxSize(int nMaxOrphans)
+{
+    int nEvicted = 0;
+    while (mapOrphanTransactions.size() > nMaxOrphans)
+    {
+        // Evict a random orphan:
+        std::vector<unsigned char> randbytes(32);
+        RAND_bytes(&randbytes[0], 32);
+        uint256 randomhash(randbytes);
+        map<uint256, CDataStream*>::iterator it = mapOrphanTransactions.lower_bound(randomhash);
+        if (it == mapOrphanTransactions.end())
+            it = mapOrphanTransactions.begin();
+        EraseOrphanTx(it->first);
+        ++nEvicted;
+    }
+    return nEvicted;
+}
 
 
 
@@ -2183,6 +2201,11 @@ bool static ProcessMessage(CNode* pfrom, string strCommand, CDataStream& vRecv)
         {
             printf("storing orphan tx %s\n", inv.hash.ToString().substr(0,10).c_str());
             AddOrphanTx(vMsg);
+
+            // DoS prevention: do not allow mapOrphanTransactions to grow unbounded
+            int nEvicted = LimitOrphanTxSize(MAX_ORPHAN_TRANSACTIONS);
+            if (nEvicted > 0)
+                printf("mapOrphan overflow, removed %d tx\n", nEvicted);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main.h b/src/main.h
index 25cf079013..3e381b060b 100644
--- a/src/main.h
+++ b/src/main.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class CBlockIndex;
 static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 1000000;
 static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIZE_GEN = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE/2;
 static const int MAX_BLOCK_SIGOPS = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE/50;
+static const int MAX_ORPHAN_TRANSACTIONS = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE/100;
 static const int64 COIN = 100000000;
 static const int64 CENT = 1000000;
 static const int64 MIN_TX_FEE = 50000;