GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/09/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm

Aliases

Published

2023-09-06T19:49:46Z

Modified

2023-11-08T17:39:39Z

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 denial of service via malicious p2p message

Details

Impact

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

Details

The p2p handler spawned a new goroutine to respond to ping requests. By flooding a node with ping requests, an unbounded number of goroutines can be created, leading to resource exhaustion and potentially crash due to OOM.

Patches

The fix is included in geth version 1.12.1-stable, i.e, 1.12.2-unstable and onwards.

Fixed by https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/27887

Workarounds

No known workarounds.

Credits

This bug was reported by Patrick McHardy and reported via bounty@ethereum.org.

References

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-09-06T19:15:44Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-09-06T19:49:46Z"
}

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

1.12.1-stable