FKIE_CVE-2024-52916

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-18 04:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:07
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Bitcoin Core before 0.15.0 allows a denial of service (OOM kill of a daemon process) via a flood of minimum difficulty headers.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/07/03/disclose-header-spam/Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_ExposuresThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
bitcoin bitcoin_core *
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