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authorfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2019-09-19 08:37:59 +0800
committerfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2019-09-19 08:51:30 +0800
commit9bf5768dd628b3a7c30dd42b5ed477a92c4d3540 (patch)
treedef2c27db1839a801ee089425f73a3d507794726
parent59c138d2f1497275725eb2b2c8749472f3e7a5ef (diff)
parentc4b0c08f7c91bcef48dd023982ff132795575247 (diff)
Merge #16885: doc: Update tx-size-small comment with relevant CVE disclosure
c4b0c08f7c91bcef48dd023982ff132795575247 Update tx-size-small comment with relevant CVE disclosure (Gregory Sanders) Pull request description: Code first introduced under https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11423 with essentially no description and no discussion. ACKs for top commit: MarcoFalke: ACK c4b0c08f7c91bcef48dd023982ff132795575247 fanquake: ACK c4b0c08f7c91bcef48dd023982ff132795575247 Tree-SHA512: 95d5c92998b8b1e944c477dbaee265b62612b6e815099ab31d9ff580b4dff777abaf7f326a284644709f918aa1510412d62310689b1250ef6e64de7b19ca9f71
-rw-r--r--src/validation.cpp3
-rw-r--r--test/functional/data/invalid_txs.py2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/validation.cpp b/src/validation.cpp
index 9696b65ea7..39780e1c6d 100644
--- a/src/validation.cpp
+++ b/src/validation.cpp
@@ -574,7 +574,8 @@ bool MemPoolAccept::PreChecks(ATMPArgs& args, Workspace& ws)
// Do not work on transactions that are too small.
// A transaction with 1 segwit input and 1 P2WPHK output has non-witness size of 82 bytes.
- // Transactions smaller than this are not relayed to reduce unnecessary malloc overhead.
+ // Transactions smaller than this are not relayed to mitigate CVE-2017-12842 by not relaying
+ // 64-byte transactions.
if (::GetSerializeSize(tx, PROTOCOL_VERSION | SERIALIZE_TRANSACTION_NO_WITNESS) < MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE)
return state.Invalid(ValidationInvalidReason::TX_NOT_STANDARD, false, REJECT_NONSTANDARD, "tx-size-small");
diff --git a/test/functional/data/invalid_txs.py b/test/functional/data/invalid_txs.py
index 9dc06422c4..fd69bbd2c7 100644
--- a/test/functional/data/invalid_txs.py
+++ b/test/functional/data/invalid_txs.py
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ class InputMissing(BadTxTemplate):
return tx
+# The following check prevents exploit of lack of merkle
+# tree depth commitment (CVE-2017-12842)
class SizeTooSmall(BadTxTemplate):
reject_reason = "tx-size-small"
expect_disconnect = False