National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1910
Original release date:08/06/2012
Last revised:08/07/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Bitcoin-Qt 0.5.0.x before 0.5.0.5; 0.5.1.x, 0.5.2.x, and 0.5.3.x before 0.5.3.1; and 0.6.x before 0.6.0rc4 on Windows does not use MinGW multithread-safe exception handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted Bitcoin protocol messages.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/8864019f6d88b13d3442843d9e6ebeb8dd938831
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=69120.0
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/03/full-disclosure-bitcoin-qt-on-windows.html