Urgent: Windows Bitcoin-Qt update

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered in the Windows version of Bitcoin-Qt. If you are running Bitcoin-Qt versions 0.5 through 0.6 on Windows you should shut it down and upgrade to either version 0.5.3.1 or 0.6rc4 NOW.

The command-line bitcoin daemon (bitcoind), Mac and Linux versions of Bitcoin-Qt, and versions prior to 0.5 are not affected.

Due to the nature of the vulnerability, we believe it would be very difficult for an attacker to do anything more than crash the Bitcoin-Qt process. However, because there is a possibility of such a crash causing remote code execution we consider this a critical issue.

Binaries are available at SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.3/

If you have questions, feel free to drop by the #bitcoin-dev channel on FreeNode IRC.

- -- Gavin Andresen Gregory Maxwell Matt Corallo Nils Schneider Wladimir J. van der Laan