[davmac]

Also:

> More importantly, this is an error which can happen purely on the client side. You don't need to compromise the node itself, you just need to compromise some peer between the client you wish to attack and the node. This is a larger attack surface and potentially allows you to force a reconnect and other bad things.

I don't understand what you mean by this. There aren't any peers between the client and the node. The node (socket) is owned by some process and the client has a connection to that socket.