CVE-2012-1909 (GCVE-0-2012-1909)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-06 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:31
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The Bitcoin protocol, as used in bitcoind before 0.4.4, wxBitcoin, Bitcoin-Qt, and other programs, does not properly handle multiple transactions with the same identifier, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unspendable transaction) by leveraging the ability to create a duplicate coinbase transaction.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0030 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/a206b0ea12… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thre… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407793 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67738.0 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://r6.ca/blog/20120206T005236Z.html | x_refsource_MISC |
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