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golang-goleveldb — security advisory
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.
- Products
- golang-goleveldb
- Affected versions
- 0+git20150214.e9e2c8f-1, 0+git20150819.1a9d62f-1, 0.0~git20170302.0.3c5717c-5, 0.0~git20170725.0.b89cc31-1, 0.0~git20170725.0.b89cc31-2, 0.0~git20200815.5c35d60-1, 0.0~git20200815.5c35d60-2
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-43668
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2021-43668
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Complete source record
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