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Critical vulnerability impacts Bitcoin Cash miners

08 May Critical vulnerability impacts Bitcoin Cash miners

Posted at 12:11h in Bitcoin News by

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A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Bitcoin ABC software which has the potential to impact miners of the cryptocurrency.

On Monday, Bitcoin ABC said in a security advisory that a critical vulnerability has been found in Bitcoin ABC version 0.17.0 which has the potential to cause an unintended split in the Bitcoin Cash network.

In order to exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to construct a malicious transaction which could be accepted into Bitcoin ABC and consequently mined into a block.

Once this block has been established, the block would then reject all other versions of Bitcoin Cash compliant implementations.

“The malicious transaction would contain the bitflag of 0x20 set in the signature hash type,” the company notes.

If exploited, the security flaw could force a split of BUCash…

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