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Bitcoin Core: CVE-2018-17144 Full Disclosure (bitcoincore.org)
2 points by chollida1 on Sept 21, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



So if I understand this correctly, it was a hard fork in version 0.15 (by the definition 'accepting a subset of blocks than a previous version'), but nobody exploited it. Similar the BDB/LevelDB incident documented in BIP 0050 (which actually had a chain split).[1]

There was a chain split due to a soft fork in 2010: the "value overflow incident".[0] Controversial since the soft fork was announced after the incident was exploited.

[0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

[1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...




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