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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-4684

Published: Mar 12, 2013 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4684
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Bitcoin-qtBitcoin0.6.3 (including)0.6.3 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.3.4 (including)0.3.4 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.3.5 (including)0.3.5 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.3.8 (including)0.3.8 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.3.10 (including)0.3.10 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.3.11 (including)0.3.11 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.3.12 (including)0.3.12 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.0 (including)0.4.0 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.1 (including)0.4.1 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.1-rc6 (including)0.4.1-rc6 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.2 (including)0.4.2 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.3 (including)0.4.3 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.4 (including)0.4.4 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.4-rc2 (including)0.4.4-rc2 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.5 (including)0.4.5 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.6 (including)0.4.6 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.4.7-rc2 (including)0.4.7-rc2 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.5.0-rc (including)0.5.0-rc (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.5.3 (including)0.5.3 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.5.3.1 (including)0.5.3.1 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.5.4 (including)0.5.4 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.5.5 (including)0.5.5 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.5.6-rc2 (including)0.5.6-rc2 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.0.1 (including)0.6.0.1 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.0.2 (including)0.6.0.2 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.0.3 (including)0.6.0.3 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.0.4 (including)0.6.0.4 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.0.5 (including)0.6.0.5 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.0.6 (including)0.6.0.6 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.0.7 (including)0.6.0.7 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.0.8 (including)0.6.0.8 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.1 (including)0.6.1 (including)
Bitcoin_coreBitcoin0.6.2 (including)0.6.2 (including)
BitcoindBitcoin0.6.3 (including)0.6.3 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.3.4 (including)0.3.4 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.3.5 (including)0.3.5 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.3.8 (including)0.3.8 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.3.10 (including)0.3.10 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.3.11 (including)0.3.11 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.4.0 (including)0.4.0 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.4.1 (including)0.4.1 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.4.1-rc6 (including)0.4.1-rc6 (including)
WxbitcoinBitcoin0.5.0-rc (including)0.5.0-rc (including)

References

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