Bitcoin Core Fixes High-Severity Remote Crash Vulnerability

Bitcoin Core released a patch for CVE-2024-52911, a long-standing use-after-free bug in the script interpreter that could allow an attacker who mines a specially crafted block with valid proof-of-work to crash nodes by causing background script-validation threads to access freed PrecomputedTransactionData; the primary impact is a potentially targeted or network-level denial-of-service rather than likely remote code execution, and node operators are urged to upgrade to Bitcoin Core 29.0 or later.