Description
libp2p-rust is the official rust language Implementation of the libp2p networking stack. Prior to 0.17.1, libp2p-rendezvous server has no limit on how many namespaces a single peer can register. A malicious peer can just keep registering unique namespaces in a loop and the server happily accepts every single one allocating memory for each registration with no pushback. Keep doing this long enough (or with multiple sybil peers) and the server process gets OOM killed. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.17.1.
Problem types
CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Product status
References
github.com/...libp2p/security/advisories/GHSA-cqfx-gf56-8x59
github.com/...libp2p/security/advisories/GHSA-cqfx-gf56-8x59