bitcoind in 12.04 LTS is obsolete and should be upgraded
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bitcoin (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
bitcoind in 12.04 LTS is obsolete and should be replaced with newer version.
$ bitcoind -rpcuser=USER -rpcpassword=PASS getinfo
{
"version" : 32400,
...
"errors" : "URGENT: upgrade required, see http://
}
$ apt-cache show bitcoind
Package: bitcoind
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 1188
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-
Architecture: i386
Source: bitcoin
Version: 0.3.24~dfsg-1
...
Full transaction history is stored locally at each client. This
requires 150+ MB of space, slowly growing.
The notice in package description about 150+ MB is not correct. Current status is that transaction history needs more than 6GB of space and slowly grows to 12GB... ;-)
tags: | added: precise upgrade-software-version |
information type: | Public → Private Security |
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.