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Bug 820380 (CVE-2021-41173, CVE-2021-43668)

Summary: <net-p2p/go-ethereum-1.10.14: multiple vulnerabilities
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: John Helmert III <ajak>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: trivial CC: maintainer-needed, sam
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-59hh-656j-3p7v
Whiteboard: ~3 [noglsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 825398    
Bug Blocks:    

Description John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-10-26 16:49:45 UTC
CVE-2021-41173:

Go Ethereum is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.10.9, a vulnerable node is susceptible to crash when processing a maliciously crafted message from a peer. Version v1.10.9 contains patches to the vulnerability. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.
Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-11-19 12:57:20 UTC
CVE-2021-43668:

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.
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2021-12-24 04:02:23 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=30fa6ec820e60f600f2ed0b50e32104886271db4

commit 30fa6ec820e60f600f2ed0b50e32104886271db4
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-12-24 04:01:59 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-12-24 04:01:59 +0000

    net-p2p/go-ethereum: drop 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.8
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/820380
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 net-p2p/go-ethereum/Manifest                  | 163 ------
 net-p2p/go-ethereum/go-ethereum-1.10.2.ebuild | 758 --------------------------
 net-p2p/go-ethereum/go-ethereum-1.10.3.ebuild | 656 ----------------------
 net-p2p/go-ethereum/go-ethereum-1.10.8.ebuild | 705 ------------------------
 4 files changed, 2282 deletions(-)

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1b767f880c3b124bd50dd2b7e019ce783f49aa36

commit 1b767f880c3b124bd50dd2b7e019ce783f49aa36
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-12-24 04:01:38 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-12-24 04:01:38 +0000

    net-p2p/go-ethereum: add 1.10.14
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/820380
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/825398
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 net-p2p/go-ethereum/Manifest                   |  27 +
 net-p2p/go-ethereum/go-ethereum-1.10.14.ebuild | 717 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 744 insertions(+)