This impacts customers of Alethzero GUI consumer on Home windows. Customers of eth CLI consumer or not on the Home windows platform are unlikely to be affected however ought to take motion detailed beneath. Customers of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected.
Challenge description: Whereas setting privateness permissions on the keys listing, inadequate error dealing with could cause the important thing information to not be written; this can be widespread on the Home windows platform. As such, present variations of AlethZero and eth could embody identities for which there exists no underlying key. Ether Presale Declare performance of AlethZero could lead to funds robotically being transferred to those misplaced identities.
Workaround: Customers of AlethZero model 0.9.39 and earlier ought to NOT use the “Declare Presale Pockets” perform; customers of AlethZero and eth variations 0.9.39 and earlier mustn’t try to mine or obtain funds into their addresses.
Customers of eth and AlethZero on all platforms ought to take into account themselves secure as soon as they’ve confirmed that they do certainly have the underlying key. To verify (along with your current setup) run:
ethkey.exe –list
It’s possible you’ll assume that each one listed addresses do certainly have a key behind them and will not be affected by this problem.
Remedial motion taken by Ethereum: New hotfix launched with modifications:
Repair: Variations 0.9.40 and onwards, accessible from circa 2015.08.07 18:30 CEST.
