CVE-2012-2459

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2012-2459 · Published 06/08/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-2459 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting bitcoin core (bitcoin).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bitcoin core bitcoin	`= 0.3.10= 0.3.11= 0.3.12= 0.3.4= 0.3.5= 0.3.8= 0.4.0= 0.4.1= 0.4.4= 0.5.0≤ 0.4.5`	No fix yet

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.6, 0.5.x before 0.5.5, 0.6.0.x before 0.6.0.7, and 0.6.x before 0.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (block-processing outage and incorrect block count) via unknown behavior on a Bitcoin network.

References

bitcointalk.org
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs · Vendor Advisory

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