CVE-2013-2293
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.030 · 87 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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affected products (52)
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references (9)
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- https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=144122cnnvd
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2013-2293cnnvd
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEscnnvd
- https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=144122enisa_euvd
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2013-2293enisa_euvd
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEsenisa_euvd
- https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=144122nvd
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2013-2293nvd
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