Detections
Analytics
CVE-2012-1910
critical
Description
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.
References
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVEs
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=69120.0
http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/03/full-disclosure-bitcoin-qt-on-windows.html