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authorGavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>2012-08-26 17:08:18 -0400
committerGavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>2012-08-26 17:08:18 -0400
commitd5a52d9b3edaae6c273b732456d98e6b28ed7b31 (patch)
tree9c41c7b28fabdd7e831128d37071d53bd3b4e4c5 /src/main.h
parent772351b0d5b298a93bb90b403b4ec151ca5f9770 (diff)
Alert system DoS prevention
This fixes two alert system vulnerabilities found by Sergio Lerner; you could send peers unlimited numbers of invalid alert message to try to either fill up their debug.log with messages and/or keep their CPU busy checking signatures. Fixed by disconnecting/banning peers if they send 10 or more bad (invalid/expired/cancelled) alerts.
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-rw-r--r--src/main.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/main.h b/src/main.h
index cbc48e05c0..dc9f9ee74a 100644
--- a/src/main.h
+++ b/src/main.h
@@ -1535,7 +1535,7 @@ public:
uint256 GetHash() const
{
- return SerializeHash(*this);
+ return Hash(this->vchMsg.begin(), this->vchMsg.end());
}
bool IsInEffect() const