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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2013-03-12T10:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-16T20:36:40.543Z
Reserved: 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-2012-4684
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2013-03-12T11:28:18.313
Modified: 2020-03-18T17:38:21.580
Link: CVE-2012-4684
Redhat
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