“Stay away from doing [transactions] for a while till confirmed, unless
you are sure you are submitting to latest Geth,” advised Andre Cronje.
A major consensus bug has affected more than half the Ethereum
network’s nodes, causing those running older versions of Geth to split
from the main network.
According to Ethereum software developer Marius van der Wijden, an attacker exploited
a vulnerability affecting earlier versions of Geth, one of Ethereum'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.
“Infura and the big exchanges seem to be on the good side of the fork, so all transactions through metamask should be golden,” said
van der Wijden. “Users that run validators need to update their nodes
quickly (in the next 10h I think) as they would otherwise vote on
invalid committees.”
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Binance Smart Chain’s Twitter account and others had previously warned Geth clients to update
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.
“Stay away from doing [transactions] for a while till confirmed, unless you are sure you are submitting to latest Geth,” advised Yearn.finance founder Andre Cronje.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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