ethereum/go-ethereum · Security
Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-5m8f-chrv-7rw5
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-43668
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Go-Ethereum 1.10.9 nodes crash (denial of service) after receiving a serial of messages and cannot be recovered. They will crash with "runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference" and arise a SEGV signal.
CWEs
- CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference