Bitcoind/-qt nodes sending corrupted transactions #3225

issue gmaxwell opened this issue on November 9, 2013

gmaxwell commented at 1:57 AM on November 9, 2013: contributor

For some unknown reason some nodes run by ordinary users are periodically emitting bad 'empty' transactions.

The result is peers log ERROR: CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : vin empty ERROR: CTxMemPool::accept() : CheckTransaction failed

and eventually ban the node for misbehaving. Phantomcircuit had a theory that it had to do with the default constructor for wtx ending up in the wallet, but it's not clear how any of the obvious causes would make them be broadcast.
laanwj commented at 6:00 AM on November 9, 2013: member

That's weird. I thought that we check transactions for validity before broadcasting them?
sipa commented at 5:26 PM on November 9, 2013: member

There was no issue for this yet? :o
gmaxwell commented at 8:56 PM on November 9, 2013: contributor

Yea, thats why I created one. This was well known on IRC.
laanwj commented at 3:53 PM on November 12, 2013: member

May be a duplicate of #3190
sipa commented at 4:44 PM on November 12, 2013: member

It is.
laanwj closed this on Jan 17, 2014
Bushstar referenced this in commit 697d289ebc on Apr 8, 2020
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