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Moderate 65 Cryptographic libraries

cryptonote_basic: serialization checks

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Authored by j-berman

35/100 · Opaque
cryptonote_basic: serialization checks
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds stricter limits during deserialization of Monero transactions. It prevents attackers from sending malformed transactions with absurdly large numbers of inputs, outputs, or ring-member references, which could previously exhaust memory or CPU during parsing. The change moves some safety checks earlier in the process and makes them mandatory for all deserialization paths, not just the main transaction-parsing helpers.

Recommended action

Treat this as a security hardening patch and include it in the next release. Nodes, wallets, and any tools parsing untrusted transaction blobs should be updated. Review whether RPC or P2P endpoints can still receive large blobs before reaching these checks, and consider additional resource limits at the network layer.

Security signals we found

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Deserialization-time bounds checking added for container sizes

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Mandatory caps on vin, vout, and key_offsets counts

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Coinbase input structure enforced during parsing

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Integer overflow check on cumulative key_offsets

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Removal of redundant post-deserialization size checks

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Unit tests changed from expecting success to expecting failure for invalid multi-txin_gen transactions

Risk score

Why this scored 65/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 18/30
Exploitability 14/25
Stealth signal 10/15
Affected reach 12/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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