GHSA-6cr6-fmvc-vw2p

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GHSA-6cr6-fmvc-vw2p

Summary: Noise vulnerable to denial of service

Details: Noise is a Go implementation of the Noise Protocol Framework. The Noise protocol implementation suffers from weakened cryptographic security after encrypting 2^64 messages, and a potential denial of service attack. After 2^64 (~18.4 quintillion) messages are encrypted with the Encrypt function, the nonce counter will wrap around, causing multiple messages to be encrypted with the same key and nonce. In a separate issue, the Decrypt function increments the nonce state even when it fails to decrypt a message. If an attacker can provide an invalid input to the Decrypt function, this will cause the nonce state to desynchronize between the peers, resulting in a failure to encrypt all subsequent messages.

References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4239, https://github.com/flynn/noise/pull/44, https://github.com/flynn/noise/commit/2499bf1bad239a8316c32932a993642350b3afdb, https://github.com/flynn/noise, https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0425