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CVE-2012-1909
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…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin | Bitcoin Core | All versions through 0.4.4 Versions 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.8, 0.3.10 |
| Bitcoin | Wxbitcoin | All versions |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://r6.ca/blog/20120206T005236Z.html
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAPg%2BsBhmGHnMResVxPDZdfpmWTb9uqD0RrQD7oSXBQq7oHpm8g%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=bitcoin-development
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67738.0
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407793
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0030
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
- https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/a206b0ea12eb4606b93323268fc81a4f1f952531
- http://r6.ca/blog/20120206T005236Z.html
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAPg%2BsBhmGHnMResVxPDZdfpmWTb9uqD0RrQD7oSXBQq7oHpm8g%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=bitcoin-development
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67738.0
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407793
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0030
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
- https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/a206b0ea12eb4606b93323268fc81a4f1f952531