GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw

Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145)

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2018-17145

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	bcoin	< 1.0.2	1.0.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

There was an easily exploitable uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability that existed in the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and several alternative chains. For more details please see: https://invdos.net/ For the paper: https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/security/advisories/GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17145 advisory
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145 web
https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin package
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.md web
https://invdos.net web
https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf web