A serious consensus bug has affected greater than half the Ethereum community’s nodes, inflicting these operating older variations of Geth to separ
A serious consensus bug has affected greater than half the Ethereum community’s nodes, inflicting these operating older variations of Geth to separate from the primary community.
In accordance with Ethereum software program developer Marius van der Wijden, an attacker exploited a vulnerability affecting earlier variations of Geth, one in every of Ethereum’s software program purchasers. In accordance with the developer, Geth purchasers and Ethereum nodes operating software program v1.10.7 or earlier are liable to splitting from the community.
“Infura and the massive exchanges appear to be on the nice aspect of the fork, so all transactions via metamask ought to be golden,” said van der Wijden. “Customers that run validators must replace their nodes shortly (within the subsequent 10h I feel) as they’d in any other case vote on invalid committees.”
A series break up has occurred on the Ethereum mainnet. The difficulty was resolved within the v1.10.Eight launch introduced beforehand. Please replace your nodes, if you have not already!
— Go Ethereum (@go_ethereum) August 27, 2021
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Binance Good Chain’s Twitter account and others had beforehand warned Geth purchasers to update to v1.10.8, which claimed to have a hotfix for the vulnerability within the earlier variations. Ethereum Digital Machine- or EVM-compatible chains may be in danger.
“Avoid doing [transactions] for some time until confirmed, until you’re positive you’re submitting to newest Geth,” advised Yearn.finance founder Andre Cronje.
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