Global hacking research collective SRLabs claims that only two thirds of the Ethereum client software that runs on Ethereum nodes has been patched against a critical security flaw discovered earlier this year. The news was reported by business tech website ZDNet on May 17.
An SRLabs report ostensibly shared with ZDNet has reportedly revealed that the critical flaw is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the Ethereum Parity client. As SRLabs has outlined, the flaw could enable a hacker to remotely crash legitimate Parity Ethereum nodes by sending malformed packets.
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