High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-10724

Description

Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service (memory exhaustion) triggered by the remote network alert system (deprecated since Q1 2016) if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects other uses of the codebase, such as Bitcoin Knots before v0.13.0.knots20160814 and many altcoins.

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Affected products

Bitcoin Foundation/Bitcoin CoreOSV2 versions
noversion, v0.13.0rc1, v0.13.0rc2, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: noversion, v0.13.0rc1, v0.13.0rc2, …
- (no CPE)range: <0.13.0
Bitcoin Foundation/Bitcoin Knotsllm-fuzzy
Range: <0.13.0.knots20160814

Patches

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References

en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_ExposuresnvdVendor Advisory
lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016189.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
bitcoin.org/en/posts/alert-key-and-vulnerabilities-disclosurenvd

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