cve-2012-4684
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-03-12 10:00
Modified
2024-09-16 20:36
Severity ?
Summary
The alert functionality in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.7.0 supports different character representations of the same signature data, but relies on a hash of this signature, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a valid modified signature for a circulating alert.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148109.0
cve@mitre.orghttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8392.0
cve@mitre.orghttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2012-4684
cve@mitre.orghttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148109.0
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8392.0
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2012-4684
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
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