<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1e46n428mcyfwznl7nlsf6d3s7rhlwm9x3cmkuqzt3emmdpadmkaqqjxmcu</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1e46n428mcyfwznl7nlsf6d3s7rhlwm9x3cmkuqzt3emmdpadmkaqqjxmcu</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2017-09-10&#xA;📝 Original message:I believe there continues to be concern over a number of altcoins which&#xA;are running old, unpatched forks of Bitcoin Core, making it rather&#xA;difficult to disclose issues without putting people at risk (see, eg,&#xA;some of the dos issues which are preventing release of the alert key).&#xA;I&#39;d encourage the list to have a discussion about what reasonable&#xA;approaches could be taken there.&#xA;&#xA;On 09/10/17 18:03, Simon Liu via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt; Hi,&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Given today&#39;s presentation by Chris Jeffrey at the Breaking Bitcoin&#xA;&gt; conference, and the subsequent discussion around responsible disclosure&#xA;&gt; and industry practice, perhaps now would be a good time to discuss&#xA;&gt; &#34;Bitcoin and CVEs&#34; which has gone unanswered for 6 months.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-March/013751.html&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; To quote:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; &#34;Are there are any vulnerabilities in Bitcoin which have been fixed but&#xA;&gt; not yet publicly disclosed?  Is the following list of Bitcoin CVEs&#xA;&gt; up-to-date?&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; There have been no new CVEs posted for almost three years, except for&#xA;&gt; CVE-2015-3641, but there appears to be no information publicly available&#xA;&gt; for that issue:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3641&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; It would be of great benefit to end users if the community of clients&#xA;&gt; and altcoins derived from Bitcoin Core could be patched for any known&#xA;&gt; vulnerabilities.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Does anyone keep track of security related bugs and patches, where the&#xA;&gt; defect severity is similar to those found on the CVE list above?  If&#xA;&gt; yes, can that list be shared with other developers?&#34;&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Best Regards,&#xA;&gt; Simon&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;</html></oembed>