From: Braydon Fuller <braydon@purse•io>
To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] CVE-2018-17145: Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:28:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a51d1171-939b-6927-2a47-e5783f9b0b56@purse.io> (raw)
Hi everyone:
We would like to share a paper and website for CVE-2018-17145 that was
found in mid-2018.
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
Best,
Braydon Fuller
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