CVE-2016-10724

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    CVE-2016-10724

    Published: 5 Jul 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -a402396dce64c42ea73535b7dde4a9164d430438

    Affected versions

    v0.13.0rc3
    v0.13.0rc2
    v0.13.0rc1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High