A denial-of-service vulnerability that affects all versions of bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt has been reported and fixed. An attacker could isolate a victim's node and cause the creation of blockchain forks.
+Because this bug could be exploited to severely disrupt the Bitcoin network we consider this a critical vulnerability, and encourage -everybody to upgrade to the latest version: 0.6.2. +everybody to upgrade to the latest version: 0.6.2.
-Backports for older releases (0.5.5 and 0.4.6) are also available if +Backports for older releases (0.5.5 and 0.4.6) are also available if you cannot upgrade to version 0.6.2.
+Full technical details are being withheld to give people the opportunity to upgrade.
-Thanks to Forrest Voight for discovering and reporting the vulnerability. +Thanks to Forrest Voight for discovering and reporting the vulnerability.
--Questions that might be frequently asked: -
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Your bitcoin process would stop processing blocks and would have a different block count from the rest of the network (you can see the -current block count at websites like blockexplorer.com or -blockchain.info). Eventually it would display the message: +current block count at websites like blockexplorer.com or +blockchain.info). Eventually it would display the message:
WARNING: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade.@@ -46,15 +47,15 @@ detects that the rest of the network seems to have a different block count, which can happen for several reasons unrelated to this vulnerability). -
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