CVE-2016-10724 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause memory exhaustion and denial of service in Bitcoin Core clients via the deprecated network alert system.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-10724?
CVE-2016-10724 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core, published on 5 Jul 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service (memory exhaustion) triggered by the remote network alert system (deprecated since Q1 2016) if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects other uses of the codebase, such as Bitcoin Knots before v0.13.0.knots20160814 and many altcoins.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10724?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Bitcoin Bitcoin-Qt, Bitcoin Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Bitcoind.
How do I fix CVE-2016-10724?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-10724 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-10724 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10724 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8m3j-gq35-pv88.