Bug 2209426 (CVE-2023-33297)

Summary:	CVE-2023-33297 bitcoin: CVE-2023-33297
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Patrick Del Bello <pdelbell>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Patrick Del Bello 2023-05-23 20:49:14 UTC

Bitcoin Core before 24.1, when debug mode is not used, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) because draining the inventory-to-send queue is inefficient, as exploited in the wild in May 2023.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27610
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27623
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-24.1.md
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27586
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures

Comment 1 Patrick Del Bello 2023-05-23 20:49:29 UTC

Created bitcoin-core tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2209427]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2209428]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-24 02:31:30 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.