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Bitcoin Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service Attack (CVE-2018-17145) (invdos.net)
7 points by tuxcanfly 2106 days ago
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> "The attack can be performed by a peer rapidly sending multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, one below the max at 49,999 items and never sending the corresponding tx data."

Multiple implementations of Bitcoin were affected by this in different ways: Bitcoin Core, Bcoin and Btcd.