Bitcoin developers rush to fix 3 security flaws after AI uncovers them
Summary
Bitcoin Core disclosed three vulnerabilities found by AI-assisted scanning: two medium-severity flaws that could exhaust node memory and a low-severity file-overflow bug that could disrupt blockchain reorganizations. One memory flaw lets malicious peers crash nodes on Windows, macOS and BSD; Linux is unaffected. Developers released patches in versions 29.5, 30.4, 31.2 and 32.1, with no active exploitation reported. The file-overflow issue can still affect 32-bit systems and nodes using FAT32 under specific conditions. Operators should upgrade to maintained releases, as version 29.x and older branches are end of life.
