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CVE-2013-2293
Published: Mar 12, 2013
Modified: Sep 16, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The CTransaction::FetchInputs method in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.8.0rc1 copies transactions from disk to memory without incrementally checking for spent prevouts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk I/O consumption) via a Bitcoin transaction with many inputs corresponding to many different parts of the stored block chain.
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References
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2013-2293
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https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=144122
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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
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