Ethereum Geth node crashed, developers urgently fixed client bug

In the early hours of this morning, miners running the Ethereum Geth client discovered that their running nodes suddenly crashed. F2Pool founder Shenyu said on his personal Weibo:

Soon, Ethereum developer and co-founder Jeffrey Wilcke issued a security warning on the Ethereum official blog:

Security Alerts

Affected clients: Geth

Likelihood: High

Severity: High

Summary: At block 2283416, the geth node ran out of memory and crashed

Details: To be determined

This incident also led to a temporary panic sell-off in the Ethereum (ETH) trading market, with its unit price falling from a high of 0.0214 BTC (87 yuan) to 0.019669 BTC (80 yuan).

The Ethereum developer team in Shanghai also paid great attention to this vulnerability, and several developers rushed to fix it in the media room at the conference.

About eight hours ago, the Ethereum development team了Geth 1.4.12 client, saying that the vulnerability has been fixed. It also recommends that affected users should update as soon as possible. The official download link is as follows:

 https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.4.12

As of press time, the price of Ethereum (ETH) has recovered to 0.0211 BTC (85 yuan).