Bitcoin Core quietly patched high-severity memory bug months before public disclosure, but many nodes may still run affected software

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The Block Editorial

(01:28 PM UTC)

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Reviewed byEmily Watson

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Bitcoin Core quietly patched its first-ever memory safety bug months before publicly disclosing the vulnerability on Tuesday, while a large share of nodes may still be running affected software.

The high-severity flaw could have allowed miners to remotely crash and potentially execute code on other user's nodes using specially crafted invalid blocks.

The vulnerability, labeled CVE-2024-52911…