From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Upcoming DOS vulnerability announcements for Bitcoin Core
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 23:14:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgSO+Bbyr1pHweiv4QT1MVcMOGBmJTd6b1+VHVAd7K2rSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgR0ak5B1gdSvR7s4YRydbpXb0jC45U3V50D6n=aMLUn7w@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On July 7th I will be making public details of several serious denial of
> service vulnerabilities which have fixed in recent versions of Bitcoin Core,
> including CVE-2015-3641.
>
> I strongly recommend anyone running production nodes exposed to inbound
> connections from the internet upgrade to 0.10.2 as soon as possible.
>
> Upgrading older systems, especially miners, is also important due to the
> BIP66 soft-fork which is about to reach enforcing status, see also:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/34199290/
Just an update here-- I'm delaying this somewhat due to recent network
turbulance and unusual attempted DOS attack activity on relayed
infrastructure.
I've also had some requests from other cryptocurrency implementors to
use a somewhat longer horizon here.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-07 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-27 6:21 [bitcoin-dev] Upcoming DOS vulnerability announcements for Bitcoin Core Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-27 7:49 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
[not found] ` <CAOC2i373Bg2v_CHDicn74RFsjZDwwDW5cGQ=01o9YNnU8Tr27w@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-27 17:55 ` Thomas Pryds
2015-06-27 18:22 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-06-27 20:53 ` Thomas Pryds
2015-07-07 23:14 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
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