cve-2012-1909
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-08-06 16:00
Modified
2024-09-17 00:31
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://r6.ca/blog/20120206T005236Z.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAPg%2BsBhmGHnMResVxPDZdfpmWTb9uqD0RrQD7oSXBQq7oHpm8g%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=bitcoin-development
cve@mitre.orghttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67738.0
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407793
cve@mitre.orghttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0030Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEsVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/a206b0ea12eb4606b93323268fc81a4f1f952531Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://r6.ca/blog/20120206T005236Z.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAPg%2BsBhmGHnMResVxPDZdfpmWTb9uqD0RrQD7oSXBQq7oHpm8g%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=bitcoin-development
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67738.0
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407793
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0030Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEsVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/a206b0ea12eb4606b93323268fc81a4f1f952531Exploit, Patch
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