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FreeBSD : bitcoin -- Denial of Service and Possible Mining Inflation (40a844bf-c430-11e8-96dc-000743165db0)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117845

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Bitcoin Core reports :

CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0rc4, includes both a Denial of Service component and a critical inflation vulnerability. It was originally reported to several developers working on Bitcoin Core, as well as projects supporting other cryptocurrencies, including ABC and Unlimited on September 17th as a Denial of Service bug only, however we quickly determined that the issue was also an inflation vulnerability with the same root cause and fix.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/

http://www.nessus.org/u?74a05b68

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117845

File Name: freebsd_pkg_40a844bfc43011e896dc000743165db0.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 10/1/2018

Updated: 2/17/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17144

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:bitcoin, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:bitcoin-daemon, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17144