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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #405
A Bitcoin Core vulnerability (CVE-2024-52911) was disclosed that could allow an attacker with sufficient proof-of-work to crash nodes via a use-after-free bug; it is fixed in version 29.0. Additionally, a draft BIP for P2P UTXO set sharing was proposed, and several updates were made to Bitcoin infrastructure including Core Lightning 26.06rc1 and BTCPay Server security fixes.
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Why It Matters
The disclosed vulnerability could potentially lead to remote code execution or node crashes, while the UTXO sharing proposal aims to improve node synchronization but faces criticism regarding potential security model degradation.