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High · 7.5 CVE-2021-42219 EUVD-2022-1553GHSA-vrcc-g6vj-mh5w

Denial of service in go-ethereum

Published Mar 16, 2022 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum <= 1.10.9 — GHSA-vrcc-g6vj-mh5w

References