Vulnerability CVE-2023-40591


Published: 2023-09-06

Description:
go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node, can be made to consume unbounded amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix is included in geth version `1.12.1-stable`, i.e, `1.12.2-unstable` and onwards. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Type:

CWE-400

(Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

 References:
https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/developers/geth-developer/disclosures
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.12.1
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm

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