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CVE-2019-15947
Published: Sep 5, 2019
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
In Bitcoin Core 0.18.0, bitcoin-qt stores wallet.dat data unencrypted in memory. Upon a crash, it may dump a core file. If a user were to mishandle a core file, an attacker can reconstruct the user's wallet.dat file, including their private keys, via a grep "6231 0500" command.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://gist.github.com/oxagast/50a121b2df32186e0c48411859d5861b
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16824
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GLSA-202009-18
vendor-advisory
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