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p2p: Remove legacy encoding from BIP-152

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Authored by rustaceanrob

45/100 · Thin
p2p: Remove legacy encoding from BIP-152
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes old-style serialization code for compact-block P2P messages and replaces it with a newer internal encoding system. It is a cleanup/refactoring change in the rust-bitcoin library. There is no direct evidence in the commit that it fixes a security vulnerability, but any encoding change can in principle affect how malformed network data is parsed.

Recommended action

Review the new encoding implementations to confirm they preserve the same input-validation behavior (vector length limits, u16 index bounds, compact-size parsing) as the removed legacy code. If this commit is part of a release, include it in normal regression testing of compact-block P2P handling. No urgent security action is indicated by the diff alone.

Security signals we found

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Removal of legacy consensus encoding traits for P2P compact-block messages

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Switch to newer encoding::{Encode, Decode} trait system

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Change in ShortId siphash key construction: explicit nonce.to_le_bytes() input instead of generic consensus_encode

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Removal of explicit MAX_VEC_SIZE and u16 overflow guards in BlockTransactionsRequest decoding

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No vendor statement of security relevance or CVE in commit message

Risk score

Why this scored 27/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 4/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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