This impacts customers of Alethzero GUI shopper on Home windows. Customers of eth CLI shopper or not on the Home windows platform are unlikely to be affected however ought to take motion detailed under. Customers of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected.
Situation description: Whereas setting privateness permissions on the keys listing, inadequate error dealing with may 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 might embody identities for which there exists no underlying key. Ether Presale Declare performance of AlethZero might end in funds mechanically 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 and mine or obtain funds into their addresses.
Customers of eth and AlethZero on all platforms ought to contemplate themselves protected as soon as they’ve confirmed that they do certainly have the underlying key. To examine (along with your present setup) run:
ethkey.exe –list
You might assume that every one listed addresses do certainly have a key behind them and usually are not affected by this challenge.
Remedial motion taken by Ethereum: New hotfix launched with adjustments:
Repair: Variations 0.9.40 and onwards, obtainable from circa 2015.08.07 18:30 CEST.