ports/171080: DOS vulnerability in bitcoin and bitcoind - CVE-2012-2459

[Peter Zuidema]

>Number:         171080
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       DOS vulnerability in bitcoin and bitcoind - CVE-2012-2459
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 26 11:40:02 UTC 2012
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Zuidema
>Release:        8.3-RELEASE-p3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD ganesh.icebear.net 8.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 #0: Wed Jun 20 23:13:40 CEST 2012     root at ganesh.icebear.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GANESH  amd64
>Description:
As copied from the CVE entry - 
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Unspecified vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt before 0.4.6, 0.5.x before 0.5.5, 0.6.0.x before 0.6.0.7, and 0.6.x before 0.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (block-processing outage and incorrect block count) via unknown behavior on a Bitcoin network.
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