NRDAX-T0353 - Unvalidated Header Buffer OOM
memory_amp · active · first seen 2026-01-01
provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline
mechanism
CVE-2024-52916: difficulty-1 headers with parent=genesis → mapBlockIndex unbounded growth → memory DoS
instances (2)
| chain | primitive | fidelity | origin | reproducer (bundle) | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bitcoin | btc_headers_genesis_spam | lab | reverse-engineered-cve | btc_headers_genesis_spam | bitcoincore.org ↗ |
| bitcoin | btc_headers_oom | lab | reverse-engineered-cve | btc_headers_oom | bitcoincore.org ↗ |
references
cve: CVE-2026-42582
ghsa: GHSA-jqc5-2p7q-fqfc
related (memory_amp)
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-T0353
plain
NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0353.
bibtex
@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0353,
title = {Unvalidated Header Buffer OOM (NRDAX-T0353)},
howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0353},
} json (csl)
{
"id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0353",
"type": "dataset",
"title": "Unvalidated Header Buffer OOM (NRDAX-T0353)",
"URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0353",
"publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}