PT-2013-1693 · Bitcoin · Bitcoin-Qt+1

Enochian + 1 · Published 2013-03-12 · Updated 2020-03-18 · CVE-2012-4684

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt versions prior to 0.7.0

Description The issue concerns the alert functionality in the affected software, which improperly handles different character representations of the same signature data. It relies on a hash of this signature, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service through resource consumption by providing a valid modified signature for a circulating alert.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.7.0, update to version 0.7.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4684

Affected Products

Bitcoin-Qt

Bitcoind

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4684 · Security Note
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs · Note
• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8392.0 · Note
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2012-4684 · Note
• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148109.0 · Note