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"infinite loop" test can cause potential denial of service #5906

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BattleBird opened this issue May 31, 2020 · 1 comment
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"infinite loop" test can cause potential denial of service #5906

BattleBird opened this issue May 31, 2020 · 1 comment

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@BattleBird
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when we use a bytecode which contains an "infinite loop" to test the aleth, the aleth will keep running and consume the memory and CPU resources until the out of memory and crash. If we use the crafted bytecode to attack the aleth-vm, is this a kind of denial of service?

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we use this simple example as follows,
Screenshot from 2020-05-31 22-36-52

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