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Closed (moved) Hidden service socket exhaustion by opening many connections
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  • Closed (moved) Issue created by George Kadianakis

    Hello,

    it seems that some HSes are getting DoSed by an attacker who establishes a few circuits and then sends thousands of RELAY_BEGIN cells through them. It's basically a variant of #15515 (moved), but fortunately this can be fixed by patching the HS.

    Here are some fixes ideas from Yawning:

    a) Some variation on "implement a hard cap on the number of simultaneous streams that can be associated to a given circuit before we start rejecting RELAY_BEGINs". Will break apps if the hard cap is too low due to web browsers wanting to open tons of TCP/IP connections (limiting it to something like... 16/32/64 with it being tunable may be ok, consult Mike?)

    b) Apply throttling to RELAY_BEGINs over a given circuit. Something like "allow up to N streams to complete immediately, then each subsequent stream will be delayed for x seconds, doubling for each additional RELAY_BEGIN, resetting after y seconds". Annoying since queuing is required (OOM hazard here?).

    c) "If you want to be more resilient to this, use an AF_UNIX backed HS". This should shift the part that crumples to the app code, at which point it's kind of not our problem (the HS code might fall down for other reasons in this case, so I don't see this as being a real solution...)

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