The Anatomy of Bitcoin Core’s Recent Bug
Cointelegraph
Published Sep 27, 2018 01:29PM ET
Updated Sep 27, 2018 01:41PM ET
The Anatomy of Bitcoin Core’s Recent Bug
Software vulnerabilities continue to be a red flag issue in crypto community. Not long ago, the top-five cryptocurrency EOS network experienced a vulnerability right in the dawn of its development. The same thing happened to Ethereum, when a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks led to a significant delay in the operation of the nodes. And the news about another bug in the code came out yesterday, with the announcement made by Monero developers to patch the vulnerability, which allowed attackers to burn funds. It could seem that such kind of bug can affect any crypto, but not Bitcoin. But what could be worse than the vulnerability of a coin with a daily turnover of $4.5 billion? Perhaps, only ignorance about the existing threat. The recent Bitcoin Core vulnerability is a clear case in point.
On Sept. 18, Bitcoin Core developers announced a release of an update to fix a DDoS attack vulnerability. The most shocking discovery was that such an attack could be succeeded by flooding the full node operators with traffic, or by sending them information that could trigger a network crash.
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