Questions tagged [cve-2010-5141]

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Which release fixed CVE-2010-5141 (attacker can spend any coin)

This post by Mike Hearn relates an interesting bit of history: When Bitcoin was first released, it contained two completely fatal bugs that made the entire system worthless. Fortunately, they were found and fixed before Bitcoin actually had any…
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What was the vulnerability in v0.3.4 that allowed an attacker to steal coins?

Reference: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-5141 What was the specific exploit in the Tx script evaluation process?
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