After the recent v0.15.3. update to the Lightning Network, a critical security vulnerability was discovered by independent cybersecurity researchers that would potentially allow bad actors to stop lnd nodes from parsing transactions.
A Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) is a full implementation of a Lightning Network Node, along with the services and plug-ins that allow it to connect to the rest of the Lightning network, a Layer-2 blockchain for Bitcoin that enables smart contracts to be run on the BTC network.
Update Released Mere Hours After Discovery
Thanks to watchful community member Burak’s work and responsive devs, hotfix v0.15.4-beta was released about three hours after the bug was discovered.
If left unattended, the bug could have stopped transactions going through if the nodes responsible for parsing them had been attacked by bad actors.
“This is an emergency hot fix release to fix a bug that can cause lnd nodes to be unable to parse certain transactions that have a very larg
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