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Limit list of pending blocks

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust

Research direction

Start by locating where pending blocks are stored and appended, then trace how that collection is populated and consumed. Define a bounded behavior that addresses the attack vector without breaking normal block processing, and add or run tests showing the limit is enforced.

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Description

We don't currently have a bound on our list of pending blocks. This could be an attack vector

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
82
Forks
28
Avg merge
1d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
20

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