CVE-2012-2459 (GCVE-0-2012-2459)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-06 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.6, 0.5.x before 0.5.5, 0.6.0.x before 0.6.0.7, and 0.6.x before 0.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (block-processing outage and incorrect block count) via unknown behavior on a Bitcoin network.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
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|---|---|
| https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415973 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=81749 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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