GHSA-vmf7-hmh6-vv57
Denial of Service in Go-Ethereum
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum | <= 1.10.16 | no fix listed |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
A design flaw in all versions of Go-Ethereum allows an attacker node to send 5120 pending transactions of a high gas price from one account that all fully spend the full balance of the account to a victim Geth node, which can purge all of pending transactions in a victim node's memory pool and then occupy the memory pool to prevent new transactions from entering the pool, resulting in a denial of service (DoS).
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.