Denial of service in go-ethereum

GHSA-vrcc-g6vj-mh5w · CVE-2021-42219

Published Mar 18, 2022 · Modified Nov 8, 2023

Description

Go-Ethereum v1.10.9 was discovered to contain an issue which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via sending an excessive amount of messages to a node. This is caused by missing memory in the component /ethash/algorithm.go.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42219
WEB https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dYFSpNZPC0OV-n1mMqdc269u9yYU1XQy/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112110745137218798745&rtpof=true&sd=true

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