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
Configurations
Configuration 1 (hide)
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Information
Published : 2013-03-12 04:28
Updated : 2020-03-18 10:38
NVD link : CVE-2012-4684
Mitre link : CVE-2012-4684
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-399
Resource Management Errors
Products Affected
bitcoin
- bitcoin-qt
- wxbitcoin
- bitcoin_core
- bitcoind