$BTC'S FIRST-EVER MEMORY BUGBitcoin developers disclosed CVE-2024-52911 on Tuesday, a high-severity bug in the network's main node software that let miners crash other people's nodes or potentially execute code on them remotely.The use-after-free vulnerability in the script validation engine affected versions 0.14.1 through 28.4. Developer Niklas Gögge called it the first memory safety issue ever disclosed in the project's history.Cory Fields of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative privately reported the bug ...