GHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/05/GHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652/GHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-4xc9-8hmq-j652

Aliases

CVE-2024-32972
GO-2024-2819

Published

2024-05-06T14:20:40Z

Modified

2024-08-16T18:15:47Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

go-ethereum vulnerable to DoS via malicious p2p message

Details

Impact

A vulnerable node can be made to consume very large amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node.

In order to carry out the attack, the attacker establishes a peer connections to the victim, and sends a malicious GetBlockHeadersRequest message with a count of 0, using the ETH protocol.

In descendants := chain.GetHeadersFrom(num+count-1, count-1), the value of count-1 is passed to the function GetHeadersFrom(number, count uint64) as parameter count. Due to integer overflow, UINT64_MAX value is then passed as the count argument to function GetHeadersFrom(number, count uint64). This allows an attacker to bypass maxHeadersServe and request all headers from the latest block back to the genesis block.

Patches

The fix has been included in geth version 1.13.15 and onwards.

The vulnerability was patched in: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/29534

Workarounds

No workarounds have been made public.

References

No more information is released at this time.

Credit

This issue was disclosed responsibly by DongHan Kim via the Ethereum bug bounty program. Thank you for your cooperation.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-05-06T15:15:23Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-05-06T14:20:40Z"
}

References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

Package

Name: github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.13.15