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This article is wrong and plain ol' fearmongering. A coordinated denial of service on network nodes is theoretical at best, as it would require a series of furt
by ccnafr 8y ago
This article is wrong and plain ol' fearmongering. A coordinated denial of service on network nodes is theoretical at best, as it would require a series of further, orchestrated actions on the rest of the blocks to achieve it.
This flaw alone isn't likely enable such an attack. Furthermore, most nodes will upgrade very quickly, greatly reducing the attack surface.
- CVE-2018-17144 8y ago> This article is wrong and plain ol' fearmongering. A coordinated denial of service on network nodes is theoretical at best, as it would require a series of further, orchestrated actions on the rest of the blocks to achieve it. This requires no action other than pushing a specific binary to an unpatched node in order for it to crash. The cost of producing the binary is one time, approximately $80k USD depending on luck.
- HashBasher 8y agoWouldn't the cost be significantly higher than $80k since the miner would have to keep his machines on for quite some time at a loss in order to mine a full block?
- stale2002 8y agoIt is not fear mongering. Someone else in the thread pointed out that there is a way to get around the crashing node assert check, and instead create infinite inflation. The bug is significantly more network destroying than what was previously thought, if this claim is true.