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Moderate 63 Cryptographic libraries

Merge pull request #11268

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Authored by tobtoht

58/100 · Thin
Merge pull request #11268

a34b2a7 epee: avoid blocking RPC workers on full send queues (selsta)

ACKs: PyXMR2025*, jpk68, plowsof
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This Monero update fixes a networking bug where the server could accidentally block all of its worker threads while waiting for slow clients to accept data. If all workers became stuck this way, the node could stop processing any network traffic, effectively causing a denial-of-service. The patch removes the blocking wait and instead drops connections that exceed send limits. It also makes HTTP response failures propagate correctly so a failed send stops further request processing instead of continuing blindly.

Recommended action

Treat as a security-hardening fix with denial-of-service relevance. Nodes and services running Monero code prior to this merge should upgrade, especially public RPC/P2P endpoints, because an attacker controlling slow or stalled peers could exhaust worker threads. Monitor for any regressions in connection backpressure behavior.

Security signals we found

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Removal of blocking condition-variable wait in network send path

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Fail-fast on send-queue overflow instead of parking worker threads

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HTTP handler now propagates send failures and enters error state

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New unit tests for send-queue count/byte/large-message limits and HTTP send failure handling

Risk score

Why this scored 63/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 18/30
Exploitability 12/25
Stealth signal 10/15
Affected reach 12/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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