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CVE-2012-4684

Published: Mar 12, 2013

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

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