Zcash Releases Software Fix After Denial-of-Service Bug Discovery
The development team behind the zcash project has released a new software update following the discovery of a denial-of-service vulnerability. In a new blog post, developers Zooko Wilcox and Paige Peterson detailed how the bug could enable an attacker to crash a zcash node remotely by sending a certain kind of transaction. The bug was traced to a change included in the project’s 1.0.4 release, related to how transactions are given priority in a node’s mempool. Word first emerged that a vulnerability had been discovered on Wednesday. The post explained: "ZcashCo, and several exchanges,....
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