GHSA-vxx9-2994-q338
Yamux vulnerable to remote Panic via malformed Data frame with SYN set and len = 262145
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Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
The Rust implementation of Yamux can panic when processing a crafted inbound Data frame that sets SYN and uses a body length greater than DEFAULT_CREDIT (e.g. 262145).
On the first packet of a new inbound stream, stream state is created and a receiver is queued before oversized-body validation completes. When validation fails, the temporary stream is dropped and cleanup may call remove(...).expect("stream not found"), triggering a panic in the connection state machine.
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#### Attack Scenario
An attacker that can establish a Yamux session with a target node can crash the target by sending a single validly encoded Yamux Data|SYN frame with an oversized body:
1. Establish a standard authenticated transport session that negotiates Yamux.
2. Send one Yamux frame with:
- Tag = Data
- Flags = SYN
- StreamId = 1 (or any new inbound stream id)
- Length = DEFAULT_CREDIT + 1 (e.g. 262145)
- Body of matching size
This can trigger a panic (stream not found) and terminate the process, depending on host application panic policy.
### Patches
Users should upgrade to `yamux` `v0.13.10`
This vulnerability was originally submitted by @revofusion to the Ethereum Foundation bug bounty program
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.