CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-43668
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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 configurations
• ethereum go ethereum 1.10.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/23866 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/23866 Third Party Advisory