Resource Management Errors Affecting bitcoin/bitcoin package, versions [,0.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.77% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BITCOINBITCOIN-2366981
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Mar 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2013

CVE-2013-2293  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bitcoin/bitcoin to version 0.8.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. 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.

CVSS Scores

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