Description
Bitcoin 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.
Remediation
References
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures#CVE-2018-17145
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.16.2/doc/release-notes.md
https://invdos.net
https://invdos.net/paper/CVE-2018-17145.pdf
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