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Bitcoin Core Fixes Memory Exhaustion Bug That Could Crash Windows and Mac Nodes

Bitcoin Core Fixes Memory Exhaustion Bug That Could Crash Windows and Mac Nodes

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TL;DR Bitcoin Core fixed a Medium-severity memory exhaustion flaw that let malicious peers crash Windows, macOS and BSD nodes, while Linux remained unaffected. Patched versions 29.5, 30.4, 31.2 and 32.1 were released across maintained branches after the vulnerability was identified through Project Loupe’s automated LLM scan. The bug affected node availability rather than Bitcoin consensus ... Read more

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