CVE-2020-26242
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-25 01:25
Modified
2024-08-04 15:56
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth before version 1.9.18, there is a Denial-of-service (crash) during block processing. This is fixed in 1.9.18.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://blog.ethereum.org/2020/11/12/geth_security_release/Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-jm5c-rv3w-w83mThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/11/12/geth_security_release/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-jm5c-rv3w-w83mThird Party Advisory
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