CVE-2021-43668

MEDIUM

Go-Ethereum 1.10.9 - Denial of Service via Nil Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/23866

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 16.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (2)
ethereum/go-ethereum 0Go
ethereum/go_ethereum 1.10.9
Published Nov 18, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026