CVE-2013-5700 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the Bitcoin daemon via crafted messages causing a divide-by-zero error, requiring an upgrade to mitigate.
- 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-2013-5700?
CVE-2013-5700 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core, published on 10 Sep 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and daemon crash) via a crafted sequence of messages.
Weakness: CWE-189
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5700?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Bitcoin Bitcoin-Qt, Bitcoin Bitcoin Core.
How do I fix CVE-2013-5700?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-5700 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2013-5700 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5700 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6j3j-6q87-74cg.