CVE-2012-1909
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 6, 2012
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 26, 2012
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0030
- https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/a206b0ea12eb4606b93323268fc81a4f1f952531
- [bitcoin-development] 20120228 Duplicate transactions vulnerabilitymailing-list
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407793
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67738.0
- http://r6.ca/blog/20120206T005236Z.html
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