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Low 33 Bitcoin

floor the electrum batch page size at one when halving it after a timeout

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Craig Raw

50/100 · Thin
floor the electrum batch page size at one when halving it after a timeout
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit fixes a bug in Sparrow Wallet's Electrum server batching logic. When the wallet had experienced network timeouts, it tried to shrink its request batch size by half. If the configured page size was already 1, halving it produced 0, which then caused every future batched request to fail for the rest of the session. The fix ensures the page size never drops below 1. This is a reliability/denial-of-service bug rather than a way for an attacker to steal funds directly.

Recommended action

Users and downstream packagers should upgrade to a release containing this commit. Operators relying on low page sizes or unstable Electrum server connections are most affected. No immediate workaround is required, but verify the fix is included before the next release.

Security signals we found

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Integer underflow-like behavior leading to zero batch size

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Persistent denial of service for wallet synchronization after timeout

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Third-party library precondition failure (Lists.partition) triggered by application logic

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Fix is a hard floor rather than a redesign of timeout handling

Risk score

Why this scored 33/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 6/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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