PT-2012-4056 · Bitcoin · Bitcoin-Qt

Luke-Jr · Published 2012-08-06 · Updated 2020-03-18 · CVE-2012-2459

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bitcoin-Qt versions prior to 0.4.6 Bitcoin-Qt versions 0.5.x prior to 0.5.5 Bitcoin-Qt versions 0.6.0.x prior to 0.6.0.7 Bitcoin-Qt versions 0.6.x prior to 0.6.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a block-processing outage and incorrect block count, via unknown behavior on a Bitcoin network.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.4.6, update to version 0.4.6 or later. For versions 0.5.x prior to 0.5.5, update to version 0.5.5 or later. For versions 0.6.0.x prior to 0.6.0.7, update to version 0.6.0.7 or later. For versions 0.6.x prior to 0.6.2, update to version 0.6.2 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2459

Affected Products

Bitcoin-Qt

References · 4

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2459 · Security Note
• https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=81749 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415973 · Note