GHSA-2gjw-fg97-vg3rHigh

Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message

Published
February 18, 2026
Last Modified
February 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-26314 →

📋 Description

Impact

A vulnerable node can be forced to shutdown/crash using a specially crafted message. More details to be released later.

Patches

The problem is resolved in the v1.16.9 and v1.17.0 releases of Geth.

Credit

This issue was reported to the Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program by Waleed Ahmed from vulsight.com

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum:<= 1.16.8

🔗 References (6)