## Summary
This is **part 1 of 2** split out from #3467 (per Tyler's request),
carrying only the mesh-scoped changes. The agent/ACP response-behavior
changes and the new `send_message` tool stay in #3467 as part 2. All
commits are @michaelneale's work, cherry-picked with authorship
preserved.
- Upgrade embedded Mesh to v0.74.0 (tag-pinned instead of commit rev)
and use canonical Gemma model IDs.
- Keep shared compute serving through member joins, roster changes, app
recovery, and community switching.
- Wait for actual model readiness and avoid resuming incomplete
downloads after quit.
- Leave `BUZZ_AGENT_THINKING_EFFORT` unset by default so each model's
chat template picks its own thinking default (`none` suppressed Gemma
tool-calling entirely; pinning `low` made Qwen3 burn ~4x output budget).
Explicit agent/persona/global values still win.
## Relationship to #3467
Contains the mesh commits from #3467 (`2cd640b23`, `0ad81c341`,
`ad13ed841`) rebased onto current main, with one deliberate exclusion:
the `crates/buzz-agent/src/llm.rs` reasoning→text parser change from
`2cd640b23` is **not** here. That change unconditionally affects every
OpenAI-compat/Responses provider, so it belongs with the reply-behavior
work in part 2, where it can be reviewed as what it is.
Not included (remaining in #3467 / part 2):
- typed `send_message` tool in dev-mcp + `BUZZ_ACP_SEND_MESSAGE_TOOL`
gating
- plain-reply delivery fallback in buzz-acp
(`BUZZ_ACP_DELIVER_PLAIN_REPLIES`)
- the mesh_agent_e2e P5/P6 rewrite (exists to prove the reply path)
- the two `env.insert` preset opt-ins in `relay_mesh.rs` for the flags
above
- the llm.rs parser change
This PR is independently mergeable; part 2's flags are all off by
default so it can land before or after.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p buzz-relay --locked` — 780 passed (one telemetry test
is order-sensitive under parallel default settings; passes in the
pre-push suite and standalone, unrelated to this diff — files untouched
here).
- `just desktop-tauri-test` (default features) — 1877 passed.
- `cargo test --locked --features mesh-llm` in `desktop/src-tauri` —
1961 passed, including the new relay-mesh preset and
coordinator/recovery tests.
- Both `Cargo.lock`s resolve with `--locked` against the v0.74.0 tag.
- Full pre-push hook suite green (rust-tests, desktop-check/test, tauri
checks).
Live validation of the mesh v0.74 upgrade itself is documented on #3467
(two-Mac cross-version test).
---------
Signed-off-by: Michael Neale <michael.neale@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Michael Neale <michael.neale@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
## Summary
Expands read-replica usage on the relay per the Rev 2 design (thread
39d1e174 in #buzz-read-only-replica-usage): replaces the
Aurora-incompatible WAL-LSN read-side fence observation with a portable
**heartbeat token**, makes the freshness proof **snapshot-local to the
serving reader session**, and adds a default-off bounded-staleness gate
for head fetches.
### Probe (writer side, unchanged ordering)
The ordered writer scan is kept verbatim — `S = clock_timestamp()` →
masked-visibility `pg_stat_activity` oldest-xact scan — and now ends by
committing a heartbeat token **last** on the same pinned connection
(single-row `UPDATE replica_heartbeat ... RETURNING token, epoch`,
migration `0026`). The single-row update serializes all pods' probes, so
tokens are globally commit-ordered; the three-bucket completeness
argument carries over unchanged. Ring retains `(token, committed_at,
fence_wall)`; epoch change resets the ring; a same-epoch token
regression (restore adversary) clears the ring **and rotates the epoch
on the writer** so pre-rewind readers fail the epoch check. Cadence 1s.
### Routing (snapshot-local proof)
Every routed read opens `BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ, READ
ONLY` on a reader session and observes the heartbeat as the
transaction's **first statement** — the proof's snapshot is exactly the
snapshot the page, participants batch, and bridge aux closure read from
(`ReadSession` carries the open transaction; drop = rollback).
Fail-closed everywhere: begin failure, missing heartbeat row, epoch
mismatch, token below the ring, over-budget entry → writer.
- **Predicate B (cursor pages, default-on):** same completeness math as
the existing fence — cursor timestamp must be ≤ the proved wall; thread
candidate-terminal and above-wall pages re-run on the writer.
- **Predicate A (head fetches, default-OFF):** gated by
`BUZZ_REPLICA_HEAD_MAX_AGE_SECS` (0 = off, clamped to fence staleness).
Bounded-stale head semantics are an explicit product decision — **do not
enable anywhere without Tyler's backdated-event-semantics acceptance.**
### Observability
`buzz_db_route_decision{path, decision, reason}` across all five paths,
`buzz_db_replica_heartbeat_age_seconds` gauge, and per-decision debug
logs carrying the proved token plus backend identity: `addr:port pid=N`,
prefixed with `aurora_db_instance_identifier()` when the endpoint
supports it (probed once per process on an autocommit checkout; SQLSTATE
42883 caches a definitive false; identity is evidence, never a routing
gate).
## Review & verification
- **Wren:** full review 9/9/9 at `5f81b10e5`; identity delta re-review
approved at exact head `fedb46368` (90/90 unit, clippy `-D warnings`,
fmt independently reproduced).
- **Max:** local E2E **PASS** at `5f81b10e5` — isolated PG17 writer +
two streaming standbys behind HAProxy; paused-reader legs split exactly
as designed (6 replica/fresh + 6 writer/stale), recovery clean, RR
snapshot hardening observed in runtime logs. Evidence:
`WORK_LOGS/2026-07-28_REPLICA_HEARTBEAT_REPLACEMENT_SHA_E2E.md`.
- **My gates at head (same shell):** buzz-db 90 unit + 143
Postgres-gated green (scratch DBs); buzz-relay 767/768 — lone red is the
pre-existing `mesh_demo` flake, red on base; clippy `-D warnings` + fmt
clean.
- Key regression tests:
`routed_request_holds_one_snapshot_across_page_and_aux`
(mutation-verified both directions), same-epoch rotation,
capability-probe negative, head-gate truth table, divergent-fixture
routing suite.
## Post-merge plan
Merge publishes the immutable `sha-*` main image → bb-public PR pins it
→ ArgoCD sync → Max runs the production cursor-routing canary on Aurora
(positive identity branch proven live). Head gate stays off. Client
`since`-widening ships separately.
---
## Update — full read routing (Rev 6, commit `9fa3c9c0b`)
Extends routing to the remaining read seams per
`PLANS/REPLICA_FULL_READ_ROUTING_DESIGN.md` Rev 6 (thread cf5deba4 in
#buzz-read-only-replica-usage).
### New routed seams — ALL deploy-default dark
The new seams (`query_events_routed`, `query_events_routed_bounded`,
`count_events_routed`, `get_events_by_ids_routed`,
`query_feed_{mentions,needs_action,activity}_routed`) are
**Bounded-only** and gated on `BUZZ_REPLICA_READ_MAX_AGE_MS`: unset ⇒
every new seam records `writer/disabled` and merging is a no-op. COUNT
and feed/by-ids never take the covered arm (deletion visibility: covered
bounds insert-completeness only). **Note:** the pre-existing cursor
paths (channel windows, thread pages) are *not* gated by this env var —
they route at B=0 today and that status quo is unchanged.
### Reader pool (D4/D5)
- Lazy pool (`connect_lazy`, `min_connections(0)`): reader-down at boot
can't crash the relay; a warn-only boot ping is the only boot-time
visibility, and it primes the Aurora identity capability cache. Priming
is an optimization only — the routed path itself spends a single acquire
budget regardless (see the single-checkout fix below), because a boot
ping that *fails* is correlated with exactly the reader-unavailable case
the budget bound exists for.
- `READER_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT` = 150ms; a miss fails closed to the writer
with reason **`reader_acquire_timeout`** — named for the mechanism, not
a diagnosis. The budget includes cold connects and sqlx's `size` counts
in-flight dials, so this metric alone does not distinguish contention
from slow connection establishment (see `proved_reader` doc-comment for
the runbook guidance; the pool gauges are 10s samples and are for
capacity planning).
- `BUZZ_DB_READ_POOL_SIZE` sizes the reader independently (invalid/0
inherits writer sizing); `read_pool_stats().max` reports the reader's
own ceiling.
### Community isolation (formal-model question)
Isolation is structural — an explicit `community_id = $n` predicate
compiled into every query builder; no RLS, no session-GUC tenant state
(zero `CREATE POLICY` across migrations). The `_on` variants reuse the
exact same builders with only the executor swapped. Proven by a
seven-seam two-community divergent-fixture test
(`routed_reads_are_confined_to_the_requested_community`),
mutation-tested by Dawn: all four single-predicate stubs killed; the
mention-join feeds are defended in depth (three independent predicates)
so only complete removal leaks there.
### Accepted limitation
D6: client-side staleness on bounded reads (up to `_MS`) is accepted
product behavior when the gate is enabled; gate stays off at merge.
## Update — single acquire budget per routed read (commit `dd26caa9f`)
Max found (and Dawn independently reproduced, 302–330ms measured) that
the boot-unavailable cold path spent **two** stacked
`READER_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT` budgets: the Aurora capability probe did its
own `pool.acquire()` before `begin_with` acquired again. Fixed by
acquiring **once** per routed read — the capability probe runs on the
held connection (`reader_aurora_capability_on`) and the read-only
`REPEATABLE READ` transaction begins on that same connection
(`Transaction::begin` accepts a `PoolConnection` at `'static` via sqlx's
`MaybePoolConnection`). Reason codes unchanged; capability still never
negatively cached. Measured routed fallback: ~150ms (one budget).
Ships with a PG-gated regression fixture
(`routed_fallback_spends_one_acquire_budget_when_aurora_cache_is_cold`,
authored by Dawn): size-1 reader saturated, capability cache asserted
cold, routes through `count_events_routed`, asserts writer answer +
one-budget elapsed + `writer/reader_acquire_timeout` label
(mutation-tested: `pool_busy` and `reader_validation_error` mutants both
killed). It fails at 330ms on the previous commit and passes on this
one.
### Verification at `dd26caa9f` (pinned toolchain rustc 1.95.0 via repo
`bin/`; ambient rustc 1.89 fails sqlx resolution — always prepend
`bin/`)
- buzz-db: 94 unit + **150/151** PG-gated serial (`--test-threads=1`;
suite is not parallel-safe against one Postgres). The 1 red is
`test_usage_metrics_lock_has_single_owner_and_releases_on_drop` — a
**pre-existing** same-key-same-database advisory-lock collision with any
live relay pointed at the shared `buzz` DB (the relay re-arms
`USAGE_METRICS_LOCK_KEY` on a 300s tick). It passes on a private scratch
DB with the relay still running — verified this run. Remedy is a scratch
`TEST_DATABASE_URL`, **not** terminating lock holders: inspect
`pg_locks`/`pg_stat_activity` and resolve the owning process first; an
idle advisory holder may be a live dev relay. Pre-existing, not a #3268
blocker — filed as #3619.
- buzz-relay: 773/773; clippy `-D warnings` + fmt clean. (`mesh_demo`
echo test is a known pre-existing Redis-dependent flake — Dawn confirmed
it fails identically on the base commit, untouched by this PR.)
- Dawn: independent re-verification at `dd26caa9f` — byte-identical diff
application confirmed, suite reproduced, and fixture proven to still
discriminate (fails at 320ms with only the production fix reverted).
Gate clear. Max: independent rig pass at `dd26caa9f` — 94/94 unit,
**15/15 routing/fallback matrix** (cursor behavior, default-dark seams,
seven-seam confinement, one-snapshot, dead-reader/no-URL fallback,
hard-delete fail-closed, reader max), 773/773 relay, private-DB lock
control. Gate clear; recommends merge + staged bb-block rollout
(no-reader-URL no-op → cursor-only → observe `buzz_db_route_decision` →
conservative nonzero `BUZZ_REPLICA_READ_MAX_AGE_MS`; rollback is
config-only).
## Known gap — CI does not run the PG-backed fixtures (#3622)
Dawn found post-sign-off (confirmed by Max and Eva at `dd26caa9f`):
**every Postgres-backed fixture in this PR is `#[ignore]`d and no CI job
selects it.** `Unit Tests` runs `cargo nextest run -p buzz-db --lib`
(`Justfile:279-285`, ignored tests excluded); the only `--run-ignored
ignored-only` invocations (`ci.yml:690`, `:702`) filter to
`relay_invite::tests`. So the one-budget regression, the seven-seam
isolation fixture, and the fence/floor-guard/fallback tests have zero
automated execution — the verification record above is exhaustive but
manual, at this exact SHA.
Not introduced by this PR (the `#[ignore]` + narrow-filter pattern
predates it; 34 ignored tests total) and not a merge blocker: all new
seams are dark until `BUZZ_REPLICA_READ_MAX_AGE_MS` is set. But it
changes the rollout gate — **do not set a nonzero
`BUZZ_REPLICA_READ_MAX_AGE_MS` in bb-block until CI enforces these
fixtures.** Filed as #3622 (explicit CI selection against the existing
backend-integration Postgres archive; ordering note: #3619 must land
first or be excluded, since widening the filter would select the
colliding usage-metrics lock test).
## Live redteam results (Max, real Helm + PG17 streaming replication at
`dd26caa9f`) — #3643, #3644
Max deployed this exact SHA via the repo chart against a physical
writer/standby pair and attacked it. **The PR's fenced routing passed
every fault**: healthy baseline routes proven on the real standby;
paused WAL replay moved head/cursor reads to `writer/stale`; B=0 moved
routed reads to `writer/disabled`; reader-URL removal rolled back
cleanly.
The redteam also found a **pre-existing** production risk this PR does
not create and does not fix: NIP-50 search builds its own eager,
unfenced pool straight from `READ_DATABASE_URL` (`main.rs:389-402`,
introduced by #2084, present in the deployed bb-block `sha-dd222a5` and
bb-public `sha-22be8bb` images, and both production ESOs already
template `READ_DATABASE_URL`). Measured: ~30s search stall on reader
loss, acknowledged-but-unsearchable writes under replica lag (unaffected
by `BUZZ_REPLICA_READ_MAX_AGE_MS`), fatal eager connect blocking pod
startup when the reader is down, and `replica=true` FTS even at B=0.
Filed as **#3643** (fix: pin FTS to the writer, or fence it like the
routed seams) with **#3644** for the writer-pointing-reader-URL
telemetry gap. Aurora's cluster-ro writer-fallback DNS softens the
outage modes in prod but not the lag mode.
**Revised ladder consequence:** step 2 ("add `READ_DATABASE_URL`, budget
unset") is NOT a no-op with today's binary — it hands FTS an unfenced
replica pool. Rollout order is now: merge (still a true no-op —
bb-block/bb-public already run the unfenced-FTS code and this PR only
adds dark seams) → fix#3643 → CI enforcement #3622 → then reader URL +
budget per the original ladder, re-running Max's three deployment tests
(reader-down latency, reader-down cold boot, paused-replay
read-your-own-write search).
## Activation gate (consolidated) — merge is clear; ALL of the below
precede any nonzero `BUZZ_REPLICA_READ_MAX_AGE_MS`
Six independent verification passes at `dd26caa9f` (Dawn ×2 incl.
byte-level + defang check, Max matrix + live Helm redteam, Wren full
CRUD regression + greenfield 0026 + 151/151 PG, Eva). Every induced
fault was either handled correctly by this PR's machinery or traced to
pre-existing main code. Remaining work gates **activation, not merge**:
1. **#3643** — unfenced NIP-50 FTS pool (pre-existing #2084; live in
prod today; also explains the blackhole search hang Wren observed — the
routed path was measured bounded at 151-152ms against a silent endpoint,
sqlx `inner.rs:252-255`).
2. **#3651** — reader `statement_timeout`: statements after acquire are
unbounded; mid-transaction blackhole reproduced hanging ≥15s (Dawn).
Small fix via `.after_connect` on the reader pool.
3. **#3622** — CI enforcement of the PG fixtures (with #3619 ordering).
4. **Recovery-conflict cancellation live test** — standby cancels a
routed read mid-snapshot → complete writer page, never partial (#3651's
fix also bounds the cancellation-never-arrives shape).
5. **DDL replication lag test** — migration on writer + paused replay +
budget on → fallback, not client-visible SQL errors.
6. **Reader-tx soak** — 30-60min mixed load; no idle-in-tx accumulation
on the standby.
Then Max's three deployment tests (reader-down latency, reader-down cold
boot, paused-replay read-your-own-write search) re-run on the fixed
binary before the first nonzero budget on bb-block.
---------
Signed-off-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
Signed-off-by: npub1qyvc0c5kl4gqv2fd97fsk46tu378sqgy35vc83rvgfwne90sel7s0ed67d <011987e296fd5006292d2f930b574be47c7801048d1983c46c425d3c95f0cffd@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
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Co-authored-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
## Summary
- add one strict `BUZZ_S3_ADDRESSING_STYLE=path|virtual` setting shared
by media and Git/CAS storage
- preserve path-style defaults for bundled Compose/Helm MinIO while
supporting Railway's virtual-hosted bucket contract
- fail startup on invalid or non-Unicode values before dependency
connection, and validate the Helm value with the same two choices
- document operator mappings and why endpoint and bucket remain separate
for routing and SigV4 signing
## Best-practice rationale
AWS documents both URL forms and favors virtual-hosted addressing for
S3, while compatibility endpoints such as the bundled MinIO deployment
can require path style. `rust-s3` defaults to virtual/subdomain
addressing and provides `with_path_style()` for the explicit
compatibility case.
Some providers buckets only support as virtual-hosted bucket styles.
This PR therefore uses one explicit, provider-neutral switch rather than
endpoint heuristics or fallback behavior, while retaining `path` as
Buzz's backward-compatible default.
Sources:
-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html
- https://docs.rs/rust-s3/0.37.0/s3/bucket/struct.Bucket.html
- https://docs.railway.com/storage-buckets#url-style
-
https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/config/README.md#domain
## Validation
- `cargo fmt --all`
- `cargo check --workspace --all-targets`
- targeted `buzz-media` and `buzz-relay` parsing/client-construction
tests for defaults, strict errors, and both URL styles
- Helm unittest: 45/45 passed
- Compose config/render validation passed
- local MinIO path-mode relay startup passed the Git A3 conformance
probe and became ready
- unreachable object storage failed startup and readiness never opened
- push hooks completed the broader Rust and desktop suites successfully
---------
Signed-off-by: npub122y0pqkertljmedu303rl0aqrj3w8pvu43t6jxm6875lzg6f2pwqegc3xc <5288f082d91aff2de5bc8be23fbfa01ca2e3859cac57a91b7a3fa9f12349505c@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Kalvin Chau <kalvin@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: npub122y0pqkertljmedu303rl0aqrj3w8pvu43t6jxm6875lzg6f2pwqegc3xc <5288f082d91aff2de5bc8be23fbfa01ca2e3859cac57a91b7a3fa9f12349505c@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Fixes all six HIGH findings from the buzz security report, one commit
per finding. Independently reviewed to approval by Max at `0158ae542`,
plus a deep isolated live pass (clean-room compose stack, weird ports,
full product matrix) at the same head — see the buzz-security thread for
evidence. `fe65c07c3` merges current `origin/main` on top (new commit,
no rebase), inheriting the nostr 0.44.6 bump (#3135) and relay-admin ban
gate (#3128).
## Findings and fixes
| Finding | Commit | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| 003 — quinn-proto RUSTSEC-2026-0185 | `e5dcdec72` | Bump quinn-proto
0.11.14 → 0.11.16 (lockfile-only) |
| 002/004 — linkify-it quadratic-parse DoS (GHSA-22p9-wv53-3rq4,
GHSA-v245-v573-v5vm) | `923b3c20f` | pnpm override `linkify-it: ^5.0.2`;
`pnpm why` confirms a single 5.0.2 copy |
| 001 — media reads served unauthenticated by default | `0f277e3e2` |
Helm `requireMediaGetAuth` defaults to `true` + rendered-chart test
pinning the default |
| 006 — removed workflow owners retain webhook-exfiltration authority |
`4749bd56c` | Fail-closed per-fire authority gate (current owner/admin
membership) on **all four** trigger doors (on_event, scheduler
pre-claim, manual trigger, webhook — masked as generic 404), save-time
gate for `call_webhook` defs, durable disable-on-removal wired to kinds
9001 + 9022 |
| 005 — git Smart-HTTP reads ignore channel membership | `e648f2dba` +
`0158ae542` | `authorize_git_read`: caller's **current active
membership** in the repo's bound channel, checked before any
hydration/subprocess on all three read doors (`info_refs` for both
services + `upload_pack` POST). Uniform generic 404 denials (no
membership probing), no repo-owner bypass, first-`buzz-channel`-tag
binding semantics fail closed on ambiguous duplicates (mutation-verified
test). Resolution follows the live kind:30617 announcement, so
deleted/replaced announcements deny immediately. The committed
`e2e-git-perms.sh` guest scenario previously asserted the vulnerability
— now asserts denial. |
## Behavior changes to be aware of
1. **Unbound repos fail closed for git reads.** `buzz repos create`
emits no `buzz-channel` tag, so CLI-created repos without a binding are
unreadable via git HTTP. Correct per finding 005's fail-closed posture;
a follow-up could bind CLI-created repos at creation time.
2. **006 is conservative:** a workflow disabled on owner removal does
not auto-re-enable if the owner is re-added — explicit re-enable
required.
3. Merge conflict resolution in `fe65c07c3`: kept main's
`@radix-ui/react-dismissable-layer` 1.1.19 bump alongside the linkify-it
security override (`pnpm-workspace.yaml` + lockfile).
## Verification at the merge head `fe65c07c3` (same shell)
- buzz-relay `--lib`: 761 passed / 1 failed — the lone red is the known
pre-existing `mesh_demo::demo_join_forwarded_arm_round_trips_echo` 504
flake, present on main
- SEC-005 module incl. PG behavioral matrix: 8/8 (removed-member,
never-member, owner-no-bypass, deleted-30617, malformed/ambiguous
binding, owner-mismatch all denied)
- buzz-workflow 153/0, buzz-db 84/0; `clippy --all-targets -D warnings`
+ `fmt --check` clean
- Desktop JS 3637/3637, tsc clean, biome clean,
file-size/px-text/pubkey-truncation gates clean
- `helm lint` + `helm unittest` (40/40) on `deploy/charts/buzz`
- All five pre-push hooks green (desktop-check, desktop-test,
rust-tests, desktop-tauri-test, branch-skew)
Prior review evidence at `0158ae542` (pre-merge): Max's independent
exact-head approval + clean-room live regression pass
(`WORK_LOGS/2026-07-27_SECURITY_HIGH_LIVE_TEST.md` in his workspace).
Max will re-run the deep local pass at this post-merge head before
merge.
---------
Signed-off-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
Signed-off-by: npub1qyvc0c5kl4gqv2fd97fsk46tu378sqgy35vc83rvgfwne90sel7s0ed67d <011987e296fd5006292d2f930b574be47c7801048d1983c46c425d3c95f0cffd@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
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Co-authored-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
## Summary
`cargo-deny` started failing on **every** PR and on `main` when
**RUSTSEC-2026-0216** was published mid-afternoon today. Nothing in the
tree changed — cargo-deny fetches the advisory DB at run time, so main's
own `Security` job passed at `00ecf2c` and then began failing on the
same commit.
```
error[vulnerability]: Remote Denial of Service via malformed NIP-44 v2 payload
Cargo.lock:432 nostr 0.44.3 — RUSTSEC-2026-0216
advisories FAILED, bans ok, licenses ok, sources ok
```
The `nostr` NIP-44 v2 decrypt path reads a 2-byte unpadded-length prefix
via `buffer[0..2]` **after** the HMAC check passes, without verifying
the decrypted buffer holds 2 bytes. A sender who holds the conversation
key — i.e. any DM sender — can craft a payload that decrypts to 0 or 1
bytes and panic the receiver. Remote DoS through any relay that delivers
the event. No key material, plaintext, or memory corruption.
Affects `0.26.0` through `0.44.4`. Fixed in `0.44.5`.
## The change
Lockfiles only, 6 insertions / 6 deletions. The manifest already
declares `nostr = "0.44"` — a caret range — so `0.44.6` needs no
`Cargo.toml` edit.
| Lockfile | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| `Cargo.lock` | 0.44.3 | 0.44.6 |
| `desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock` | **0.44.4** | 0.44.6 |
**The desktop lockfile is the part worth reviewing.**
`desktop/src-tauri` is excluded from the root workspace
(`Cargo.toml:31`), and the `Security` job runs `cargo-deny check` at the
repo root — so it never sees that lockfile. It was pinning a vulnerable
*and* yanked `0.44.4` that no CI check would ever have flagged. Desktop
calls `nip44::decrypt` at `commands/identity.rs:495`. Credit to @Eva for
catching this; I'd have shipped the root-only fix and left it sitting
there.
**This isn't optional maintenance.** `0.44.0` through `0.44.4` are all
yanked on crates.io. `0.44.5` and `0.44.6` are the only live versions in
our range — staying put isn't an available option.
### On the two extra lines in the desktop lockfile
The desktop bump also repoints two existing dependency edges:
```
nostr-derive: syn 2.0.118 -> syn 1.0.109
tempfile: getrandom 0.4.3 -> getrandom 0.3.4
```
I checked these rather than waving them through: **no packages are added
or removed** — both versions were already present in the graph, so only
which edge points where changed. The resolution is stable across
repeated re-resolves, and a plain re-resolve without the bump produces
zero diff, so this isn't pre-existing lockfile staleness leaking in.
## Verification
At this commit, in a clean worktree off `origin/main`:
- `cargo-deny check advisories` → **`advisories ok`**, exit 0. The same
tree before the bump reported `advisories FAILED` with this advisory, so
the check is doing real work, not passing vacuously.
- `./scripts/run-tests.sh unit` → all five packages pass.
- `cargo test -p buzz-core` 229/229, `-p buzz-cli` 250/250, `-p
buzz-relay --lib` 750 pass / 1 fail — the sole failure
`api::mesh_demo::tests::demo_join_forwarded_arm_round_trips_echo` is
pre-existing and reproduces identically at unmodified `00ecf2c`.
- `desktop-tauri-test` passed in the pre-push hook, which exercises the
crate whose lockfile changed.
## Why not a `deny.toml` ignore
Considered and rejected. This is a reachable panic triggerable by any DM
sender, and buzz-acp agents decrypt DMs from arbitrary senders.
Suppressing it would ship a live remote-DoS to every agent and client in
order to make a dashboard green.
## Note on `spin`
The yanked `spin 0.9.8` / `0.10.0` warnings in the same job are **not**
what fails CI — the log has exactly one hard error, this one. They're
`warning[yanked]`, and warnings don't fail the build. `spin` is also
three levels transitive (`mesh-llm-host-runtime → mdns-sd → flume →
spin`) under a dev-dependency, so it isn't ours to bump. Left alone
deliberately.
## Follow-up
Unblocks #3128 (relay-admin ban gate), which has a zero dependency-file
delta and will inherit this cleanly once main is merged in.
Co-authored-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
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