From: Gavin Andresen <gavin@bitcoinfoundation•org>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind version 0.8.3 released
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:57:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T0PDmVhBd=275Yw3K9FbESmFybkFo3iZGBwivHxq176Wg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 is now available from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/
This is a maintenance release to fix a denial-of-service attack that
can cause nodes to crash.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
0.8.3 Release notes
===================
Truncate over-size messages to prevent a memory exhaustion attack.
Fix a regression that causes excessive re-writing of the 'peers.dat' file.
===================
Thanks to Peter Todd for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability
( CVE-2013-4627 ) and creating a fix.
next reply other threads:[~2013-06-25 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-25 17:57 Gavin Andresen [this message]
2013-06-25 23:13 ` Jesus Cea
2013-06-25 23:34 ` Pieter Wuille
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