CVE-2012-4684

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
12/03/2013
Last modified:
18/03/2020

Description

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin-qt:0.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.1:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.4:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bitcoin:bitcoin_core:0.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*