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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-2239 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T17:33:18.075Z

Reserved: 2013-02-28T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2013-2293

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-03-12T11:28:18.390

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-2293

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