Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk

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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https://ift.tt/2xwC0Ly David Canellis September 20, 2018 at 06:01AM