Matrix Synapse before 0.28.1 is prone to a denial of service flaw where malicious events injected with depth = 2<sup>63</sup> - 1 render rooms unusable, related to federation/federation_base.py
and handlers/message.py
, as exploited in the wild in April 2018.
docs.google.com/document/d/1I3fi2S-XnpO45qrpCsowZv8P8dHcNZ4fsBsbOW7KABI/edit#heading=h.fj95ykuss7s1
github.com/matrix-org/synapse
github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/33f469ba19586bbafa0cf2c7d7c35463bdab87eb
matrix.org/blog/2018/05/01/security-update-synapse-0-28-1
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10657