Bitcoin Core vulnerability allows denial of service via flood of minimum difficulty headers
CVE-2024-52916

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Key Information:

Vendor: Bitcoin Core
Status: Bitcoin Core
Vendor: CVE Published:; 18 November 2024

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What is CVE-2024-52916?

Bitcoin Core before 0.15.0 allows a denial of service (OOM kill of a daemon process) via a flood of minimum difficulty headers.

References

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exp...

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/07/03/disclose-header-spam/

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Timeline

Vulnerability published
Nov 18, 2024
Vulnerability Reserved
Nov 18, 2024

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CVE-2024-52916 : Bitcoin Core vulnerability allows denial of service via flood of minimum difficulty headers