{"id":20815,"date":"2025-01-31T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ethereum-developers-address-vulnerability-in-leading-client\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:43:44","slug":"ethereum-developers-address-vulnerability-in-leading-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ethereum-developers-address-vulnerability-in-leading-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Developers Address Vulnerability in Leading Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind the Ethereum client Geth, written in the Go programming language, has released version 1.14.13, codenamed Schwarzschild.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?PSA: go-ethereum emergency release?<\/p>\n<p>We released v1.14.13 today which fixes an issue introduced in 1.14.0. If you are running a version of geth that 1.14 or later, please update to the newest version. Nodes running v1.13.x are not affected<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ethereum<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mXqkbIEziv\">https:\/\/t.co\/mXqkbIEziv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MariusVanDerWijden (@vdWijden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vdWijden\/status\/1884973351149449223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The update addresses a vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-24883. Exploiting this flaw allows an attacker to halt a node&#8217;s operation through <span data-descr=\"a hacker attack on a computing system aimed at causing it to fail\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DoS<\/span> attacks via malicious P2P messages.<\/p>\n<p>The bug was first discovered by Polygon security expert David Matosse.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the Geth update was coordinated with several L2 networks, including Optimism, which could have been affected by the vulnerability, the client developers noted.<\/p>\n<p>The issue did not affect software versions prior to v1.14.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPlease update your nodes as soon as possible,\u201d urged the programmers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Geth covers nearly 50% of the Ethereum client segment. The solution dominates alongside Nethermind (over 32%) written in C#.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clients-ethernodes.org-The-Ethereum-Network-Node-Explorer-Google-Chrome-1.webp\" alt=\"Clients-ethernodes.org-The-Ethereum-Network-Node-Explorer-Google-Chrome-1\" class=\"wp-image-250877\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethernodes.org\/\">Ethernodes<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, Ethereum developers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-targets-march-mainnet-activation-for-pectra\">planned<\/a> the implementation of the major Pectra upgrade in the main network for March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind the Ethereum client Geth, written in the Go programming language, has released version 1.14.13, codenamed Schwarzschild. ?PSA: go-ethereum emergency release? We released v1.14.13 today which fixes an issue introduced in 1.14.0. If you are running a version of geth that 1.14 or later, please update to the newest version. 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