Bit money large hole incident compares the bit money that this week produced message on September 23 even what development business discloses at first is even serious.
(have disastrous effect as a result of this flaw, development staff decides to keep secret this flaw, for oneself buy time comes repair flaw. )
This flaw stunned bit money world at first, the report says at that time, this flaw can be used to shut network of money of one part bit.
Although this sounds already enough to a lot of people how terrible, but factual proof, bit money core (Bitcoin Core) development staff is right the 2nd part of this flaw, and be larger one part still keep secret, did not disclose detail. The common flaw that passes a government and expose an error (CVE) report exposure, aggressor can use this flaw to found new bit money actually, increase the supply of bit money thereby, let bit money gross exceed limitation of amount of 21 million rigid, make current bit money devalues.
According to the view of a lot of people, the conversed behavior of regulation of this kind of close to adding money can cause a lot of undesirable consequence, at worst, may bring about an user to trust no longer add close money.
Because this flaw has disastrous effect, development staff decides to keep secret this flaw, for oneself buy time comes repair flaw, urge business of bit money mine and user to upgrade their software.
The common flaw that develops personnel compose by bit money core and expose an error (CVE) the report explains:
"To encourage each to just go apace upgrades, we decide to release a patch instantly, announce so not serious but the flaw that meeting block breaks a service, mix with mine business, enterprise at the same time other the system that suffers an effect undertakes osculatory, defer the full details that releases this problem incident, so that give a system,upgrade put apart time. So that give a system,upgrade put apart time..Current and character, the plan of group of development of bit money core appears already be successful.
This common flaw and expose erroneous report to say, exceeding the bit money of the half to dig Ha Xi to lead is reached after the software version that upgrades to had been repaired, this means the flaw that discovers this to will have the possibility that is atttacked no longer, and developer " also had not discovered somebody tries to exploit this one loophole " .
