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Bitcoin Seeder DoS Vulnerability

Mar 17th, 2015

The DNS parser of the Bitcoin Seeder was vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A specially crafted DNS request could trigger infinite recursive function calls that lead to a stack overflow. See the exploit. The vulnerability was fixed in commit 11e935b.

Posted by Jonas Nick Mar 17th, 2015 bitcoin

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