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Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 23, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 18, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum (Go)

Affected versions

<= 1.10.9

Patched versions

None

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 18, 2021
Reviewed Nov 19, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 23, 2021
Last updated Sep 18, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.044%
(14th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-43668

GHSA ID

GHSA-5m8f-chrv-7rw5

Source code

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