CVE-2021-43668

published 2021-11-18

CVE-2021-43668: 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…

Priority P4 16 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ethereum	go_ethereum	—	—
github.com	ethereum_go-ethereum	0 – 1.10.9	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

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