A malicious peer can cause a syncing node to panic during blocksync. The syncing node may enter into a catastrophic invalid syncing state or get stuck in blocksync mode, never switching to consensus. Nodes that are vulnerable to this state may experience a Denial of Service condition in which syncing will not work as expected when joining a network as a client.
{ "review_status": "REVIEWED", "url": "https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2951" }
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