Denial of Service Vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 and Earlier

CVE-2013-2292 · HIGH Severity

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

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (electricity consumption) by mining a block to create a nonstandard Bitcoin transaction containing multiple OP_CHECKSIG script opcodes.

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