CVE-2013-3220 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-3220

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.9rc2, 0.5.x before 0.5.8rc2, 0.6.x before...

Vulnerability Description

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.9rc2, 0.5.x before 0.5.8rc2, 0.6.x before 0.6.5rc2, and 0.7.x before 0.7.3rc2, and wxBitcoin, do not properly consider whether a block's size could require an excessive number of database locks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (split) and enable certain double-spending capabilities via a large block that triggers incorrect Berkeley DB locking.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

bitcoin-qt, bitcoin core, bitcoind, qitcoin-qt
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.4, 0.4.8, 0.5.0, 0.5.0.4, 0.5.1, 0.5.3.0, 0.5.7, 0.5.8, 0.6.0.10, 0.6.3, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 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, 0.6.5

Timeline

Official Publish: August 1st, 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.