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
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-17145US | high7.5 | — | ||
Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, aka INV… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145WEB
- https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoinPACKAGE
- https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/security/advisories/GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jwWEB
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.mdWEB
- https://invdos.netWEB
- https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdfWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17145ADVISORY
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