Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bitcoin  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-BITCOIN-1047848
  • published12 Mar 2013
  • disclosed12 Mar 2013

Introduced: 12 Mar 2013

CVE-2013-2272  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bitcoin package and not the bitcoin package as distributed by Debian.

The penny-flooding protection mechanism in the CTxMemPool::accept method in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.9rc1, 0.5.x before 0.5.8rc1, 0.6.0 before 0.6.0.11rc1, 0.6.1 through 0.6.5 before 0.6.5rc1, and 0.7.x before 0.7.3rc1 allows remote attackers to determine associations between wallet addresses and IP addresses via a series of large Bitcoin transactions with insufficient fees.