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Correct `maximum_pending_updates` of 0 in MonitorUpdatingPersister

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Matt Corallo

73/100 · Adequate
Correct `maximum_pending_updates` of 0 in MonitorUpdatingPersister

Though users maybe shouldn't use `MonitorUpdatingPersister` if they
don't actually want to persist `ChannelMonitorUpdate`s, we also
shouldn't panic if `maximum_pending_updates` is set to zero.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit fixes a bug where setting a configuration value called `maximum_pending_updates` to 0 in a Lightning node persistence helper would cause the program to crash (panic) due to division by zero. The fix makes the code skip storing incremental updates when the limit is 0, which is a valid 'do not store updates' setting. It is a robustness fix rather than an exploitable security vulnerability, and the crash would only affect the node operator who configured the value to 0.

Recommended action

Treat as a low-severity bug fix. No immediate security response is required, but downstream users relying on `MonitorUpdatingPersister` should ensure they upgrade if they intend to set `maximum_pending_updates` to 0. Review other modulo/division uses in configuration paths for similar zero-guard issues.

Security signals we found

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Integer divide-by-zero panic in configuration-dependent code path

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Denial-of-service-like crash triggered by user-supplied configuration value

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No evidence of memory corruption, privilege escalation, or remote trigger

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Fix is defensive hardening of a public API/config option

Risk score

Why this scored 29/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 4/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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