CVE-2018-17145

Summary

CVECVE-2018-17145
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-10 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-15 14:33:00 UTC
DescriptionBitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, aka INVDoS. NOTE: this can also affect other cryptocurrencies, e.g., if they were forked from Bitcoin Core after 2017-11-15.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bcoin Bcoin All All All All
Application Bcoin Bcoin All All All All
Application Bitcoin Bitcoin Core All All All All
Application Bitcoin Bitcoin Core All All All All
Application Bitcoinknots Bitcoin Knots All All All All
Application Bitcoinknots Bitcoin Knots All All All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.10.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.11.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.11.1 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.12.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.13.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.13.0 beta2 All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.20.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.20.1 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.3.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.3.1 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.3.2 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.3.3 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.4.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.5.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.6.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.7.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.8.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.9.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.10.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.11.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.11.1 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.12.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.13.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.13.0 beta2 All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.20.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.20.1 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.3.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.3.1 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.3.2 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.3.3 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.4.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.5.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.6.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.7.0 alpha All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.8.0 beta All All
Application Btcd Project Btcd 0.9.0 beta All All
Application Decred Dcrd All All All All
Application Decred Dcrd All All All All
Application Litecoin Litecoin All All All All
Application Litecoin Litecoin All All All All
Application Namecoin Namecoin Core All All All All
Application Namecoin Namecoin Core All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf CONFIRM invdos.net Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures - Bitcoin Wiki MISC en.bitcoin.it Vendor Advisory
INVDoS - Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145) CONFIRM invdos.net Third Party Advisory
bitcoin/release-notes.md at v0.16.2 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980546 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for bcoin (GHSA-hx3r-jv9q-85jw)

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