CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-19184

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 12, 2018 | Modified: Dec 13, 2018

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19184
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

cmd/evm/runner.go in Go Ethereum (aka geth) 1.8.17 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV) via crafted bytecode.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Go_ethereum	Ethereum	1.8.17 (including)	1.8.17 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/18069

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