Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

GHSA-5m8f-chrv-7rw5 · CVE-2021-43668

Published Nov 23, 2021 · Modified Nov 8, 2023

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.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43668
WEB https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/23866
WEB https://github.com/syndtr/goleveldb/issues/373
PACKAGE https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

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