Bitcoin Core DoS Bug in Inv-to-Send Sets

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A denial-of-service issue in Bitcoin Core before v25.0 caused inbound connections to drop and high CPU usage. The bug stemmed from inv-to-send sets growing too large. Anthony Towns contributed a fix; author provided monitoring data and flamegraphs from May 2023.

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