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Topic: overflow bug SERIOUS - page 4. (Read 63853 times)

newbie
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Merit: 0
August 15, 2010, 05:09:53 PM
#8
I'm afraid the community is just too big and distributed now to expect much in the way of voluntary quick action on anything, especially generation which I'm sure many have on automatic and largely unmoderated.
founder
Activity: 364
Merit: 6472
August 15, 2010, 05:06:45 PM
#7
It would help if people stop generating.  We will probably need to re-do a branch around the current one, and the less you generate the faster that will be.

A first patch will be in SVN rev 132.  It's not uploaded yet.  I'm pushing some other misc changes out of the way first, then I'll upload the patch for this.
founder
Activity: 364
Merit: 6472
August 15, 2010, 04:59:09 PM
#6
Here's the preliminary change.  Look right?  I have more changes to make, this isn't all of it.  Will SVN shortly.

Code:
    bool CheckTransaction() const
    {
        // Basic checks that don't depend on any context
        if (vin.empty() || vout.empty())
            return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : vin or vout empty");

        // Check for negative and overflow values
        int64 nTotal = 0;
        foreach(const CTxOut& txout, vout)
        {
            if (txout.nValue < 0)
                return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout.nValue negative");
            if (txout.nValue > 21000000 * COIN)
                return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout.nValue too high");
            nTotal += txout.nValue;
            if (nTotal > 21000000 * COIN)
                return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout total too high");
        }

        if (IsCoinBase())
        {
            if (vin[0].scriptSig.size() < 2 || vin[0].scriptSig.size() > 100)
                return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : coinbase script size");
        }
        else
        {
            foreach(const CTxIn& txin, vin)
                if (txin.prevout.IsNull())
                    return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : prevout is null");
        }

        return true;
    }

Don't sticky the topic, nobody looks up there.  There'll be enough posts to bump.
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1091
August 15, 2010, 04:42:49 PM
#5
Or the same patch from your github, http://gist.github.com/525921 which gives us the raw patch that can be applied directly,
http://gist.github.com/raw/525921/fe2ad7583f0dd2444caa0b3e24d750bf45cac11b/Quick%20fix%20block%2074652

EDIT:  I was unable to patch directly using this, perhaps CRLF problems.

I applied your changes manually, and uploaded the result here: http://yyz.us/bitcoin/patch.bitcoin-gavin-overflow-quick-fix

legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 2216
Chief Scientist
August 15, 2010, 04:39:42 PM
#4
Until there is a better fix... after a very small amount of testing this seems to work:
Code:
--- a/main.h
+++ b/main.h
@@ -473,8 +473,12 @@ public:
 
         // Check for negative values
         foreach(const CTxOut& txout, vout)
+ {
             if (txout.nValue < 0)
                 return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout.nValue negative");
+ if (txout.nValue > 21000000*COIN)
+ return error("CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout.nValue over-max");
+ }
 
         if (IsCoinBase())
         {
@@ -520,6 +524,8 @@ public:
         int64 nValueOut = 0;
         foreach(const CTxOut& txout, vout)
         {
+ if (txout.nValue > 21000000*COIN)
+ continue; // ignore over-max-value...
             if (txout.nValue < 0)
                 throw runtime_error("CTransaction::GetValueOut() : negative value");
             nValueOut += txout.nValue;

You'll need to re-download the part of the block chain before the bad block-- remove the blkindex.dat and blk0001.dat files.   I started with knightmb's blockchain snapshot.
sr. member
Activity: 252
Merit: 268
August 15, 2010, 04:26:44 PM
#3
Whether to stop generating depends on the possible solution. If there are ever bad blocks, I can imagine an officially patched Bitcoin could be hard coded to exclude bad transactions contained in the block chain so that although the bad transactions would still be sitting in the chain, they would be ignored. I recommend people keep on generating if you were previously generating but be cautious about transactions until we hear back from Satoshi.

The recommendation is to stop generating.
newbie
Activity: 15
Merit: 0
lfm
full member
Activity: 196
Merit: 104
August 15, 2010, 03:04:11 PM
#1
seems a block at height 74638 has expoited a bug in the net. It uses an integer overflow to make a negative total transaction. The two transaction outputs are:

 out Value:92233720368.54(7ffffffffff85ee0) out Value:92233720368.54(7ff
ffffffff85ee0)

We need a fix asap

Edit:
(satoshi)
0.3.10 patch download links here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/version-0310-block-74638-overflow-patch-827

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