CVE-2018-17144

High

Description

Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductBitcoin Core
PublishedSep 19, 2018
First seenSep 19, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • bitcoin bitcoin_core0.14.3, 0.15.2, 0.16.3 or later
  • bitcoinknots bitcoin_knots0.16.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
bitcoin bitcoin_core0.14.0 ≤ v < 0.14.3, 0.15.0 ≤ v < 0.15.2, 0.16.0 ≤ v < 0.16.30.14.3, 0.15.2, 0.16.3
bitcoinknots bitcoin_knots0.14.0 ≤ v < 0.16.30.16.3

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