Title: Major security flaw afflicting most altcoins: Update your sources Post by: tacotime on March 29, 2013, 03:33:26 PM There is a severe security flaw using Berkeley DB and the default settings given in older versions of Bitcoin.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0050 http://bitcoin.org/may15.html This needs to be addressed within the next quarter for Litecoin. Code: [00:44] <fuzzy> uh guys Details on how to temporarily fix this for the Litecoin client version 0.6.3 are here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159238.msg1698182#msg1698182 Eventually the client will need to move to 0.8.1+ versions. Coblee has stated he will do this: Litecoin will be updated to 0.8.1 soon. Like wtogami said, I had originally planned to stay 1 major version behind Bitcoin so that we don't get bit by a bad release. But as it turned out, the 0.8 hard fork just made it clear that there was an issue with old releases that could cause a hard fork even without 0.8. So wtogami and pooler will be helping me with rebasing the Litecoin code to 0.8.1. I do want to wait til May 15 to make sure that Bitcoin is able to handle the potential hard fork. Since the Litecoin community is much smaller, we should have even less of a problem. But it's better to be safe. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159238.msg1699934#msg1699934However, most other major altchains operating on forks of bitcoin versions before 0.8.1 will also need to implement this, so please update your sources accordingly! Title: Re: Major security flaw afflicting most altcoins: Update your sources Post by: tgsrge on March 29, 2013, 04:12:01 PM as the dude on irc said, dont do anything until coblee releases a patch. there is no rush. the last thing we need right now is users doing things haphazardly.
i do find it somewhat disturbing that people make this out to be a big deal as if it only affected altcoins when in reality it affected (and still affects) bitcoin, though. Title: Re: Major security flaw afflicting most altcoins: Update your sources Post by: chriswen on March 29, 2013, 04:20:19 PM Okay, we're getting a litecoin client upgrade soon!
Title: Re: Major security flaw afflicting most altcoins: Update your sources Post by: mr_random on March 29, 2013, 04:22:21 PM Yeah this affects Bitcoin too.
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