CVE-2013-2293 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-2293

The CTransaction::FetchInputs method in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.8.0rc1 copies...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

bitcoin-qt, bitcoin core, bitcoind
Vulnerable Versions:
0.4, 0.4.8, 0.5.0, 0.5.0.4, 0.5.1, 0.5.3.0, 0.5.7, 0.6.0.10, 0.6.3, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0, 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.8, 0.3.10, 0.3.11, 0.3.12, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3, 0.4.4, 0.4.5, 0.4.6, 0.4.7, 0.5.3, 0.5.3.1, 0.5.4, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.6.0.1, 0.6.0.2, 0.6.0.3, 0.6.0.4, 0.6.0.5, 0.6.0.6, 0.6.0.7, 0.6.0.8, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.0.0, 0.6.4

Timeline

Official Publish: March 12th, 2013
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.