CVE-2012-1910 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can cause application crashes or execute arbitrary code on Windows Bitcoin clients via crafted protocol messages due to unsafe exception handling.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2012-1910?
CVE-2012-1910 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core, published on 6 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1910?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Bitcoin Bitcoin-Qt, Bitcoin Bitcoin Core.
How do I fix CVE-2012-1910?
No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1910 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2012-1910 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1910 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7x7v-j4j4-m9h4.