CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash

Headline:
CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash

Summary:
This lead was identified from Bitcoin Core Blog. It has been saved for accountability coverage and should be reviewed against the original source before expansion.

What the record says:
The source headline is: CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash. The source summary says: After Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 and before Bitcoin Core 29.0, validating a specially-crafted block may cause the node to access previously freed memory. During validation, necessary data required for checking inputs for each transaction is pre-calculated and cached. For specially crafted invalid blocks, it was possible for this data to be destroyed while it was still being accessed by a background validation thread. An attacker capable of mining a block with sufficient proof-of-work could have exploited this to crash victim nodes. Because of the nature of use-after-free bugs, it is possible that the crash could have been used for remote code execution, though constraints on the input (block) data make this unlikely. This issue is considered High severity. Details By default, script validation for new blocks is dispatched to background threads via a vector of CScriptCheck functors. Each CScript

Why it matters:
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What is not yet proven:
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Source:
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/05/05/disclose-cve-2024-52911/

AI writer note: OPENAI_API_KEY is empty, so this was generated with the built-in safe fallback writer.