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openSUSE: 2018:3001-1 Important: Denial of Service Prevention for Bitcoin

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial enhancement for bitcoin on Fedora addresses remote vulnerabilities, bolstering overall system resilience and safeguarding integrity.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for bitcoin to version 0.16.3 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-17144: Prevent remote denial of service (application crash)

exploitable by miners via duplicate input (bsc#1108992).

For additional changes please check the changelog.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1098=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1098=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1098=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

bitcoin-debugsource-0.16.3-7.3.1

bitcoin-qt5-0.16.3-7.3.1

bitcoin-qt5-debuginfo-0.16.3-7.3.1

bitcoin-test-0.16.3-7.3.1

bitcoin-test-debuginfo-0.16.3-7.3.1

bitcoin-utils-0.16.3-7.3.1

bitcoin-utils-debuginfo-0.16.3-7.3.1

bitcoind-0.16.3-7.3.1

bitcoind-debuginfo-0.16.3-7.3.1

libbitcoinconsensus-devel-0.16.3-7.3.1

libbitcoinconsensus0-0.16.3-7.3.1

libbitcoinconsensus0-debuginfo-0.16.3-7.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

bitcoin-debuginfo-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoin-debugsource-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoin-qt5-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoin-qt5-debuginfo-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoin-test-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoin-test-debuginfo-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoin-utils-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoin-utils-debuginfo-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoind-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

bitcoind-debuginfo-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

libbitcoinconsensus-devel-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

libbitcoinconsensus0-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

libbitcoinconsensus0-debuginfo-0.16.3-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

bitcoin-qt5-0.16....

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17144.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108992

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3001-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0 openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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