Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Script Abuse Potential?

From: Jeremy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 22:27:44 -0500

It is an unfortunate script, but can't actually
​do
 that much
​ it seems​
. The MAX_SCRIPT_ELEMENT_SIZE = 520 Bytes.
​ Thus, it would seem the worst you could do with this would be to
(10000-520*2)*520*2
bytes  ~=~ 10 MB.

​Much more concerning would be the op_dup/op_cat style bug, which under a
similar script ​would certainly cause out of memory errors :)

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On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Suppose someone were to use the following pk_script:
>
> [op_2dup, op_2dup, op_2dup, op_2dup, op_2dup, ...(to limit)...,
> op_2dup, op_hash160, <addr_hash>, op_equalverify, op_checksig]
>
> This still seems to be valid AFAICS, and may be a potential attack vector?
>
> Thanks.
>
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