CVE-2023-40591

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-40591
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-06 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-12 15:24:00 UTC
Descriptiongo-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ethereum Go Ethereum All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Vulnerability disclosure | go-ethereum MISC geth.ethereum.org
DoS via malicious p2p message · Advisory · ethereum/go-ethereum · GitHub MISC github.com
Release Antibaar (v1.12.1) · ethereum/go-ethereum · GitHub MISC github.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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