{"id":331240,"date":"2021-08-27T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bug-in-ethereum-client-leads-to-split-evm-compatible-chains-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2021-08-27T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:38:24","slug":"bug-in-ethereum-client-leads-to-split-evm-compatible-chains-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bug-in-ethereum-client-leads-to-split-evm-compatible-chains-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"# Bug in Ethereum client leads to split \u2014 EVM-compatible chains at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Bug in Ethereum client leads to split \u2014 EVM-compatible chains at risk <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDgvMjkzMzdhYWMtZmU0My00ZjgwLTliNDctZTM2OGQwMjA1ZjA5LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>A major consensus bug has affected more than half the Ethereum network\u2019s nodes, causing those running older versions of Geth to split from the main network.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ethereum software developer Marius van der Wijden, an attacker <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vdWijden\/status\/1431254798129577984\">exploited<\/a> a vulnerability affecting earlier versions of Geth, one of Ethereum&#8217;s software clients. According to the developer, Geth clients and Ethereum nodes running software v1.10.7 or earlier are at risk of splitting from the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInfura and the big exchanges seem to be on the good side of the fork, so all transactions through metamask should be golden,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vdWijden\/status\/1431278864345538569\">said<\/a> van der Wijden. \u201cUsers that run validators need to update their nodes quickly (in the next 10h I think) as they would otherwise vote on invalid committees.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A chain split has occurred on the Ethereum mainnet. The issue was resolved in the v1.10.8 release announced previously. Please update your nodes, if you haven&#8217;t already!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Go Ethereum (@go_ethereum) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/go_ethereum\/status\/1431264560019820547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Ethereum London hard fork goes live<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Binance Smart Chain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> account and others had previously <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BinanceChain\/status\/1430369584712880128\">warned<\/a> Geth clients to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon\/status\/1430197833739554823\">update<\/a> to v1.10.8, which claimed to have a hotfix for the vulnerability in the earlier versions. Ethereum Virtual Machine- or EVM-compatible chains may also be at risk. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStay away from doing [transactions] for a while till confirmed, unless you are sure you are submitting to latest Geth,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndreCronjeTech\/status\/1431259003150012419\">advised<\/a> Yearn.finance founder Andre Cronje.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"defi_newsletter\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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According to Ethereum software developer Marius van der Wijden, an attacker exploited a vulnerability affecting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDgvMjkzMzdhYWMtZmU0My00ZjgwLTliNDctZTM2OGQwMjA1ZjA5LmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112348,82402,75498,73821,4965],"class_list":["post-331240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-chain","tag-ether-price","tag-fork","tag-developers","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}