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p2p: Implement `Decodable` for `AddrV2`

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What the developer wrote

Authored by rustaceanrob

68/100 · Adequate
p2p: Implement `Decodable` for `AddrV2`

Usual EOF error cases as well as if the buffer does not fit into the
expected size of the network address. Other networking related errors
are preserved as well.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds the ability to decode (read/parse) a newer Bitcoin peer-address format called AddrV2. Before this change, the code could encode (write) these addresses but apparently could not decode them. The new decoder checks that address lengths match what each network type expects, rejects some invalid address encodings (like wrapping an old Tor or IPv4 address inside IPv6), and reports errors cleanly. It is a normal feature-completion patch, but because it handles untrusted network input, any mistakes here could create parsing bugs.

Recommended action

Review as a normal feature patch. Verify that the inner `ByteVecDecoder` enforces a sensible maximum length and that `read_limit` cannot be bypassed, because AddrV2 messages can carry large `Unknown` address payloads. Confirm the error variants propagate correctly and do not accidentally swallow EOF or oversize-buffer conditions.

Security signals we found

01

New untrusted-input decoder added for a P2P message type

02

Length validation before converting byte vectors to fixed-size address arrays

03

Rejection of wrapped/ambiguous address encodings (OnionCat-in-IPv6, IPv4-embedded-in-IPv6)

04

CJDNS prefix validation (0xFC)

05

EOF and read-limit behavior delegated to existing inner decoder

Risk score

Why this scored 35/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 6/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 7/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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