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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWh4M3ItanY5cS04NWp3

Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)

There was an easily exploitable uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability that existed in the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and several alternative chains.

For more details please see: https://invdos.net/

For the paper: https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: about 3 years ago
Updated: 9 months ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw, CVE-2018-17145
References:

• https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/security/advisories/GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17145
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145
• https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.md
• https://invdos.net
• https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw

Affected Packages