CVE-2012-1909 (GCVE-0-2012-1909)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-08-06 16:00
Modified
2024-09-17 00:31
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Bitcoin protocol, as used in bitcoind before 0.4.4, wxBitcoin, Bitcoin-Qt, and other programs, does not properly handle multiple transactions with the same identifier, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unspendable transaction) by leveraging the ability to create a duplicate coinbase transaction.
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