Bitcoin Crisis Averted by Software Bug Discovery

Since its release in 2009, Bitcoin Core has dealt with several software bugs, yet only a few have been deemed as serious and high-risk. Recent reports indicate that a bug which essentially allowed anyone interested to crash the entire Bitcoin network has just been patched.
With this in mind, the bug in question has been described as a denial-of-service vulnerability. It worked by allowing miners to create a poisoned block containing a double-spend transaction. An attacker would simply need to se