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GSD-2022-23327

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19

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A design flaw in Go-Ethereum 1.10.12 and older versions allows an attacker node to send 5120 future transactions with a high gas price in one message, which can purge all of pending transactions in a victim node's memory pool, causing a denial of service (DoS).

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CVE-2022-23327

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CVE-2022-23327

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CVE-2022-23327 (GCVE-0-2022-23327)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-04 11:24 – Updated: 2026-07-09 00:16

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://tristartom.github.io/docs/ccs21.pdf
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3485369

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