Effect of Linux Kernel CVE-2026-99999 (CVSS 9.3, PwnScape) on the Bitcoin network

KIT runs their nodes on dedicated machines and not cloud machines that might have been affected by this. @matthias, can you confirm?

Yes, I can confirm. We haven’t restarted our nodes.

Thanks for your analysis of the snapshots. That’s very interesting!

I think, however, that the churn that we see in the total amount of connections is probably unrelated to this event. We have already seen a similar amount of churn during the last months: