2018-9-20 12:22 |
The entire Bitcoin infrastructure has been issued with a stern warning: update Bitcoin Core software or risk having the whole thing collapse. Until now, Bitcoin miners could have brought down the entire blockchain by flooding full node operators with traffic, via a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.
“A denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2018-17144) exploitable by miners has been discovered in Bitcoin Core versions 0. 14. 0 up to 0. 16. 2. ” the patch notes state. “It is recommended to upgrade any of the vulnerable versions to 0. 16. 3 as soon as possible. ” Developers have issued a patch for anyone running nodes, along with an appeal to update the software immediately. …
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