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CVE-2020-26242: Denial of Service

November 25, 2020 (updated December 3, 2020)

Go Ethereum, or “Geth”, is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In Geth, there is a Denial-of-service (crash) during block processing. This is fixed

References

  • blog.ethereum.org/2020/11/12/geth_security_release/
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26242

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.9.18

Fixed versions

  • v1.9.18

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.9.18 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Source file

go/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/evm/CVE-2020-26242.yml

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