CVE-2018-17145

High

Description

Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, aka INVDoS. NOTE: this can also affect other cryptocurrencies, e.g., if they were forked from Bitcoin Core after 2017-11-15.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductBitcoin Core
PublishedSep 10, 2020
First seenSep 10, 2020

How to fix

Update
  • bitcoin bitcoin_core0.16.2 or later
  • bcoin bcoin1.0.2 or later
  • bitcoinknots bitcoin_knots0.16.2 or later
  • decred dcrd1.5.2 or later
  • litecoin litecoin0.16.2 or later
  • namecoin namecoin_core0.16.2 or later
  • bcoin1.0.2 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
bitcoin bitcoin_core0.16.0 ≤ v < 0.16.20.16.2
bcoin bcoinv < 1.0.21.0.2
bitcoinknots bitcoin_knots0.16.0 ≤ v < 0.16.20.16.2
btcd_project btcd0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0, 0.13.0, 0.20.0, 0.20.1—
decred dcrdv < 1.5.21.5.2
litecoin litecoin0.16.0 ≤ v < 0.16.20.16.2
namecoin namecoin_core0.16.0 ≤ v < 0.16.20.16.2
bcoinnpmv < 1.0.21.0.2

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