SB2020091409 - Denial of service in Bitcoin core
Published: September 14, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020091409
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17145)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources with the applicatoin. A remote attacker can flood the application with multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack, aka INVDoS.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.