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CVE-2012-1909 Detail

Description

The Bitcoin protocol, as used in bitcoind before 0.4.4, wxBitcoin, Bitcoin-Qt, and other programs, does not properly handle multiple transactions with the same identifier, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unspendable transaction) by leveraging the ability to create a duplicate coinbase transaction.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://r6.ca/blog/20120206T005236Z.html
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAPg%2BsBhmGHnMResVxPDZdfpmWTb9uqD0RrQD7oSXBQq7oHpm8g%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=bitcoin-development
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67738.0
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407793
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0030 Vendor Advisory 
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/a206b0ea12eb4606b93323268fc81a4f1f952531 Exploit  Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-16 Configuration cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-1909
NVD Published Date:
08/06/2012
NVD Last Modified:
03/18/2020
Source:
MITRE