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SOLANA
2026-07-22
Crashing an Agave validator during snapshot bootstrap with one oversized account length
A snapshot served by an untrusted peer that declares one account with a data_len over Agave's 10 MiB per-account maximum panics a bootstrapping validator during index generation — before the snapshot hash is ever checked — from a ~136-byte crafted storage file.
Simon Morley
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