NRDAX-T0199 - Peer-Record Flood OOM

Memory amplification · P2P and gossip · no bound · active · first seen 2023-01-01

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

CVE-2023-40583: unchecked signed peer-record flood (peer-exchange) → go-libp2p peerstore OOM

live exposure

No exposure data. Slashr ↗ has no risk signal mapped to this technique yet — absence of data is not absence of exposure.

instances (1)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
libp2p	libp2p_signed_peer_record_flood	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	libp2p_signed_peer_record_flood	GHSA-gcq9-qqwx-rgj3 ↗

references

cve: CVE-2023-40583

cve: CVE-2026-35405

vendor-advisory: GHREL-libp2p-go-libp2p-v0.49.0

related (Memory amplification)

NRDAX-T0023 - Coalesced Packet Buffer Leak active NRDAX-T0025 - Compact Block Size Integer Overflow active NRDAX-T0038 - Count Underflow Header Serving Amplification active NRDAX-T0042 - Crypto Frame Reassembly Buffer Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0046 - Decompression Bomb Resource Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0059 - Duplicate Transport Parameter Memory Leak active NRDAX-T0061 - Duplicate Tx Mempool Index Desync active NRDAX-T0071 - Ethash Verification Memory Exhaustion active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0199

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0199.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0199,
  title = {Peer-Record Flood OOM (NRDAX-T0199)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0199},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0199",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Peer-Record Flood OOM (NRDAX-T0199)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0199",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}

badge

[![NRDAX-T0199 in the NRDAX registry](https://nrdax.com/badge/NRDAX-T0199.svg)](https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0199-peer-record-flood-oom)

use from the CLI

Retrieve or cite this technique from a script or the terminal with the NRDAX Python library & CLI.

Retrieve this technique

nrdax get NRDAX-T0199

Cite it (BibTeX)

nrdax cite NRDAX-T0199 --format bibtex

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