Vulnerability CVE-2016-10724
Published: 2018-07-05   Modified: 2018-07-06

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.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Bitcoin -> Bitcoin-qt 
Bitcoin -> Bitcoind 

 References:
https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/alert-key-and-vulnerabilities-disclosure
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures
https://github.com/JinBean/CVE-Extension
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016189.html
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