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Core’s First Post-Embargo Patch Batch
Bitcoin Core Discloses Three Crash-Class Bugs — and Patches Every Maintained Version at Once
Bitcoin Core published three security advisories on 28 October: two unbounded-memory-growth flaws — one triggerable by a malicious peer via TCP urgent data on non-Linux systems (Windows and Mac nodes) — and an undo-file overflow a miner could trigger through a precisely timed reorg. Fixes shipped across four maintained branches at once (29.5, 30.4, 31.2, 32.1), per The Defiant. All three are denial-of-service class; no exploitation or fund risk is reported.
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- Bitcoin Core Found to Have Three New Vulnerabilities, Fixes Released in Multiple Versions · panewslab.com · T2
- Bitcoin Core bug lets malicious peers crash Windows and Mac nodes · cryptobriefing.com · T2
- Bitcoin Core Patches Three Bugs, Including Non-Linux Node Crash · thedefiant.io · T2