Security Advisory

CVE-2024-38359

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-06-20 22:16:00

Last updated 2024-08-02 04:04:25

Assigner GitHub_M

State PUBLISHED

Description

The Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) - is a complete implementation of a Lightning Network node. A parsing vulnerability in lnds onion processing logic and lead to a DoS vector due to excessive memory allocation. The issue was patched in lnd v0.17.0. Users should update to a version > v0.17.0 to be protected. Users unable to upgrade may set the `--rejecthtlc` CLI flag and also disable forwarding on channels via the `UpdateChanPolicyCommand`, or disable listening on a public network interface via the `--nolisten` flag as a mitigation.

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