Gavin Andresen (OP)
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We have been quietly notifying the largest exchanges, merchant service providers and mining pools about this issue, and waited until they upgraded or patched their code to go public with this:
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Hash: SHA512
CVE-2012-2459: Critical Vulnerability
A denial-of-service vulnerability that affects all versions of
bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt has been reported and fixed. An attacker
could isolate a victim's node and cause the creation of blockchain
forks.
Because this bug could be exploited to severely disrupt the Bitcoin
network we consider this a critical vulnerability, and encourage
everybody to upgrade to the latest version: 0.6.2.
Backports for older releases (0.5.5 and 0.4.6) are also available if
you cannot upgrade to version 0.6.2.
Full technical details are being withheld to give people the
opportunity to upgrade.
Thanks to Forrest Voight for discovering and reporting the vulnerability.
Questions that might be frequently asked:
How would I know if I am the victim of this attack?
Your bitcoin process would stop processing blocks and would have a
different block count from the rest of the network (you can see the
current block count at websites like blockexplorer.com or
blockchain.info). Eventually it would display the message:
"WARNING: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to
upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade."
(note that this message is displayed whenever your bitcoin process
detects that the rest of the network seems to have a different
block count, which can happen for several reasons unrelated to
this vulnerability).
Could this bug be used to steal my wallet?
No.
Could this bug be used to install malware on my system?
No.
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rjk
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May 14, 2012, 05:00:28 PM |
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We have been quietly notifying the largest exchanges, merchant service providers and mining pools about this issue, and waited until they upgraded or patched their code to go public with this:
Responsible disclosure FTW. |
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MrTiggr
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May 14, 2012, 05:06:43 PM |
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GAVIN FTW .. Outstanding work *bump* this.
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May 14, 2012, 05:15:12 PM |
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good thing I updated to 0.6.2 today. Nice work on the client gavin, peter, and the rest of the team
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Jan
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May 14, 2012, 05:17:50 PM |
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We have been quietly notifying the largest exchanges, merchant service providers and mining pools about this issue, and waited until they upgraded or patched their code to go public with this:
Responsible disclosure FTW. +1 |
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Technomage
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May 14, 2012, 05:48:06 PM |
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Kris
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May 14, 2012, 06:08:18 PM |
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Which email did you use to notify WalletBit?
Kind regards
Kris
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coretechs
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May 14, 2012, 06:08:49 PM |
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For anyone who is unaware, Forrest is the creator of the decentralized peer-to-peer mining pool p2pool - which will now be even more DoS resistant. Many thanks guys. |
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Luke-Jr
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May 14, 2012, 06:18:16 PM |
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For anyone who is unaware, Forrest is the creator of the decentralized peer-to-peer mining pool p2pool - which will now be even more DoS resistant. Uh, what? p2pool is more susceptible to DoS than other pools, and this fix to bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt does nothing to change that. |
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Dansker
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May 14, 2012, 06:23:21 PM |
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Explain it like I'm 10 please |
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Luke-Jr
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May 14, 2012, 06:25:34 PM |
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Explain it like I'm 10 please "You really want to upgrade ASAP..." |
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Kris
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May 14, 2012, 06:41:16 PM |
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Every bitcoind upgraded on my side, Thanks.
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bitcoinBull
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May 14, 2012, 06:50:44 PM |
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For anyone who is unaware, Forrest is the creator of the decentralized peer-to-peer mining pool p2pool - which will now be even more DoS resistant. Many thanks guys. bitcoin address: 1HNeqi3pJRNvXybNX4FKzZgYJsdTSqJTbk |
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Coinabul
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May 14, 2012, 06:56:09 PM |
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Well, this is good and bad. Good that you caught it!
You guys might want to include a link to the software update...
Anyways, bump, bump, bump!
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freewil
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May 14, 2012, 07:26:04 PM |
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Was a network alert (getinfo.errors) broadcasted for this?
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Dalkore
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May 14, 2012, 07:44:53 PM |
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We have been quietly notifying the largest exchanges, merchant service providers and mining pools about this issue, and waited until they upgraded or patched their code to go public with this:
Responsible disclosure FTW. Absolutely a good call. Thank you. Dalkore |
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mog
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May 14, 2012, 09:09:10 PM |
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It really says something when the first I hear of a critical vuln is when I'm getting the link to the patch.
Handled quite well gentleman, good job.
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coretechs
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May 15, 2012, 04:36:56 AM |
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For anyone who is unaware, Forrest is the creator of the decentralized peer-to-peer mining pool p2pool - which will now be even more DoS resistant. Uh, what? p2pool is more susceptible to DoS than other pools, and this fix to bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt does nothing to change that. If you run a p2pool node you need run bitcoind, so with this vulnerability patched the net result is a system that is less susceptible to DoS, is it not? I didn't mean to suggest this bug had anything to do with p2pool itself, which Forrest made it clear in the p2pool thread. Regarding the DoS susceptibility, do you mind answering in the p2pool thread? I don't want to hijack/derail this thread with a pool discussion - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg901218#msg901218 |
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Nyaaan
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May 15, 2012, 01:34:20 PM |
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We have been quietly notifying the largest exchanges, merchant service providers and mining pools about this issue, and waited until they upgraded or patched their code to go public with this:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512
CVE-2012-2459: Critical Vulnerability
A denial-of-service vulnerability that affects all versions of
bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt has been reported and fixed. An attacker
could isolate a victim's node and cause the creation of blockchain
forks.
Because this bug could be exploited to severely disrupt the Bitcoin
network we consider this a critical vulnerability, and encourage
everybody to upgrade to the latest version: 0.6.2.
Backports for older releases (0.5.5 and 0.4.6) are also available if
you cannot upgrade to version 0.6.2.
Full technical details are being withheld to give people the
opportunity to upgrade.
Thanks to Forrest Voight for discovering and reporting the vulnerability.
Questions that might be frequently asked:
How would I know if I am the victim of this attack?
Your bitcoin process would stop processing blocks and would have a
different block count from the rest of the network (you can see the
current block count at websites like blockexplorer.com or
blockchain.info). Eventually it would display the message:
"WARNING: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to
upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade."
(note that this message is displayed whenever your bitcoin process
detects that the rest of the network seems to have a different
block count, which can happen for several reasons unrelated to
this vulnerability).
Could this bug be used to steal my wallet?
No.
Could this bug be used to install malware on my system?
No.
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Isn't Bitcoin meant to be public or something, not 'public when you want it to be'? |
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kjlimo
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May 15, 2012, 02:24:43 PM |
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We have been quietly notifying the largest exchanges, merchant service providers and mining pools about this issue, and waited until they upgraded or patched their code to go public with this:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512
CVE-2012-2459: Critical Vulnerability
A denial-of-service vulnerability that affects all versions of
bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt has been reported and fixed. An attacker
could isolate a victim's node and cause the creation of blockchain
forks.
Because this bug could be exploited to severely disrupt the Bitcoin
network we consider this a critical vulnerability, and encourage
everybody to upgrade to the latest version: 0.6.2.
Backports for older releases (0.5.5 and 0.4.6) are also available if
you cannot upgrade to version 0.6.2.
Full technical details are being withheld to give people the
opportunity to upgrade.
Thanks to Forrest Voight for discovering and reporting the vulnerability.
Questions that might be frequently asked:
How would I know if I am the victim of this attack?
Your bitcoin process would stop processing blocks and would have a
different block count from the rest of the network (you can see the
current block count at websites like blockexplorer.com or
blockchain.info). Eventually it would display the message:
"WARNING: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to
upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade."
(note that this message is displayed whenever your bitcoin process
detects that the rest of the network seems to have a different
block count, which can happen for several reasons unrelated to
this vulnerability).
Could this bug be used to steal my wallet?
No.
Could this bug be used to install malware on my system?
No.
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Isn't Bitcoin meant to be public or something, not 'public when you want it to be'? Sometimes you gotta let the "honest nodes" know about something to fix it before the "dishonest nodes" take advantage of it... I think that's an inevitable reality of fixing issues with the least disruption. |
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