Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Bitcoin-Qt on Windows

CVE-2012-1910 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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