According to TechFlow, Bitcoin developers recently disclosed details of a serious software vulnerability. According to a senior Core developer, more than 13% of home and commercial computers that execute Bitcoin rules are vulnerable to remote shutdown.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-35202, affects Bitcoin nodes running Core software versions prior to 25.0. Nodes that have not been updated to at least 25.0 allow attackers to remotely exploit assertions in the software logic that processes block transaction ('blocktxn') messages. It is worth mentioning that the vulnerability has little financial benefit for ordinary attackers.
