Disclosure of memory DoS due to headers spam
An attacker could spam a Bitcoin Core node with low-difficulty headers chains, which could be used to remotely crash it.
Published on September 18, 2024
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Disclosure of remote crash due to addr message spam
Nodes could be spammed with addr messsages, which could be used to crash them. A fix was released on September 14th, 2021 in Bitcoin Core v22.0.
Published on July 31, 2024
Disclosure of the impact of an infinite loop bug in the miniupnp dependency
Nodes could be crashed by a malicious UPnP device on the local network. A fix was released on September 14th, 2021 in Bitcoin Core v22.0.
Published on July 31, 2024
Bitcoin Core 26.2 released
Bitcoin Core 26.2 is now available.
Published on July 09, 2024
Disclosure of crash using malicious BIP72 URI
The BIP70 implementation in Bitcoin-Qt could silently crash when opening a BIP72 URI. A fix was released on June 3rd, 2020 in Bitcoin Core 0.20.0.
Published on July 03, 2024