Gavin Andresen [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-06-25 📝 Original message:Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 ...
📅 Original date posted:2013-06-25
📝 Original message:Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.3 is now available from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/This is a maintenance release to fix a denial-of-service attack that
can cause nodes to crash.
Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues0.8.3 Release notes
===================
Truncate over-size messages to prevent a memory exhaustion attack.
Fix a regression that causes excessive re-writing of the 'peers.dat' file.
===================
Thanks to Peter Todd for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability
( CVE-2013-4627 ) and creating a fix.
Published at
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