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multi: allow invalid tlv data when decoding payment fail info

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What the developer wrote

Authored by ziggie

75/100 · Adequate
multi: allow invalid tlv data when decoding payment fail info

Older payments might have a invalid tlv stream, we now catch this
case and add a unit test.
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides an explanatory body✓ Mentions testing or verification
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This change makes LND more forgiving when reading old payment failure records that contain slightly corrupted extra data fields. Previously, such records could cause the database read to fail entirely; now the code logs a warning and continues, leaving the failure message empty but preserving the rest of the record. It is a robustness fix rather than an active vulnerability patch.

Recommended action

Treat as a defensive hardening/robustness improvement. Review whether silently discarding the failure message affects downstream payment routing or debugging, and ensure the warning log is monitored. No urgent security patch is indicated by the diff alone.

Security signals we found

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Change from hard deserialization failure to warning-and-continue for malformed stored TLV data

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New sentinel error used for precise error matching

03

Unit test demonstrates that truncated TLV no longer aborts HTLCFailInfo deserialization

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Failure message is dropped when extra TLV parsing fails

Risk score

Why this scored 47/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 12/30
Exploitability 8/25
Stealth signal 6/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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