NIXPKGS-2026-0287

GitHub issue published on 20 Feb 2026

Permalink CVE-2026-26314

updated 1 day, 13 hours ago by @LeSuisse Activity log

Created automatic suggestion 1 day, 17 hours ago
@LeSuisse accepted 1 day, 13 hours ago
@LeSuisse published on GitHub 1 day, 13 hours ago

Go Ethereum affected by DoS via malicious p2p message

go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to version 1.16.9, a vulnerable node can be forced to shutdown/crash using a specially crafted message. The problem is resolved in the v1.16.9 and v1.17.0 releases of Geth.

Affected products

go-ethereum

==< 1.16.9

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.go-ethereum

Official golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol

nixos-unstable 1.16.8
- nixpkgs-unstable 1.16.8
- nixos-unstable-small 1.16.8
nixos-25.11 1.16.5
- nixos-25.11-small 1.16.5
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 1.16.5

Package maintainers

@asymmetric Lorenzo Manacorda <lorenzo@mailbox.org>
@RaghavSood Raghav Sood <r@raghavsood.com>

Upstream advisory: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-2gjw-fg97-vg3r
Upstream patch: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/895a8597cb16c02203e38707ed2d1da5c500fe60

Nixpkgs Security Tracker

Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0287

Affected products

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.go-ethereum

Package maintainers