// Copyright (c) 2015 The Bitcoin Core developers // Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. #include "merkle.h" #include "hash.h" #include "utilstrencodings.h" /* WARNING! If you're reading this because you're learning about crypto and/or designing a new system that will use merkle trees, keep in mind that the following merkle tree algorithm has a serious flaw related to duplicate txids, resulting in a vulnerability (CVE-2012-2459). The reason is that if the number of hashes in the list at a given time is odd, the last one is duplicated before computing the next level (which is unusual in Merkle trees). This results in certain sequences of transactions leading to the same merkle root. For example, these two trees: A A / \ / \ B C B C / \ | / \ / \ D E F D E F F / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 6 for transaction lists [1,2,3,4,5,6] and [1,2,3,4,5,6,5,6] (where 5 and 6 are repeated) result in the same root hash A (because the hash of both of (F) and (F,F) is C). The vulnerability results from being able to send a block with such a transaction list, with the same merkle root, and the same block hash as the original without duplication, resulting in failed validation. If the receiving node proceeds to mark that block as permanently invalid however, it will fail to accept further unmodified (and thus potentially valid) versions of the same block. We defend against this by detecting the case where we would hash two identical hashes at the end of the list together, and treating that identically to the block having an invalid merkle root. Assuming no double-SHA256 collisions, this will detect all known ways of changing the transactions without affecting the merkle root. */ uint256 ComputeMerkleRoot(std::vector hashes, bool* mutated) { bool mutation = false; while (hashes.size() > 1) { if (mutated) { for (size_t pos = 0; pos + 1 < hashes.size(); pos += 2) { if (hashes[pos] == hashes[pos + 1]) mutation = true; } } if (hashes.size() & 1) { hashes.push_back(hashes.back()); } SHA256D64(hashes[0].begin(), hashes[0].begin(), hashes.size() / 2); hashes.resize(hashes.size() / 2); } if (mutated) *mutated = mutation; if (hashes.size() == 0) return uint256(); return hashes[0]; } uint256 BlockMerkleRoot(const CBlock& block, bool* mutated) { std::vector leaves; leaves.resize(block.vtx.size()); for (size_t s = 0; s < block.vtx.size(); s++) { leaves[s] = block.vtx[s]->GetHash(); } return ComputeMerkleRoot(std::move(leaves), mutated); }