Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-3641 - Unspecified vulnerability in Bitcoin Core

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
bitcoin
nessus

Summary

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.10.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (disabled functionality such as a client application crash) via an "Easy" attack.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Bitcoin
182

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_D7B9A28D238C11E586FF14DAE9D210B8.NASL
descriptionGregory Maxwell reports : On July 7th I will be making public details of several serious denial of service vulnerabilities which have fixed in recent versions of Bitcoin Core, including including CVE-2015-3641. I strongly recommend anyone running production nodes exposed to inbound connections from the internet upgrade to 0.10.2 as soon as possible.
last seen2020-03-20
modified2015-07-06
plugin id84529
published2015-07-06
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/84529
titleFreeBSD : bitcoin -- denial of service (d7b9a28d-238c-11e5-86ff-14dae9d210b8)
code
#
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(84529);
  script_version("2.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3641");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : bitcoin -- denial of service (d7b9a28d-238c-11e5-86ff-14dae9d210b8)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Gregory Maxwell reports :

On July 7th I will be making public details of several serious denial
of service vulnerabilities which have fixed in recent versions of
Bitcoin Core, including including CVE-2015-3641.

I strongly recommend anyone running production nodes exposed to
inbound connections from the internet upgrade to 0.10.2 as soon as
possible."
  );
  # http://bitcoin-development.narkive.com/tO8M0R0j/upcoming-dos-vulnerability-announcements-for-bitcoin-core
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?13a3ab28"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/d7b9a28d-238c-11e5-86ff-14dae9d210b8.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?89497cb5"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:bitcoin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/06/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/07/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/07/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"bitcoin<0.10.2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");