Security Advisory [Implementation bugs in Go and Python clients can cause DoS – Fixed – Please update clients]

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State transition and consensus issue in geth client causes panic (crash) when processing a (valid) block with a specific combination of transactions, which may cause overall network instability if block is accepted and relayed by unaffected clients thus causing a DoS. This may happen in a block that contains transactions...

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Published:September 2, 2015 at 06:24 PM
Source:Ethereum Foundation Blog
Category:Crypto
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