Security Advisory [Implementation bugs in Go and Python clients can cause DoS – Fixed – Please update clients]

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis at 02 Sept 2015, 18:24 UTC

State transition and consensus issue in geth client causes panic (crash) when processing a (valid) block with a specific combination of transactions, which may cause overall network instability if block is accepted and relayed by unaffected clients thus causing a DoS. This may happen in a block…

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• T1Security Advisory [Implementation bugs in Go and Python clients can cause DoS – Fixed – Please update clients]Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis02 Sept 2015, 18:24