Affected configurations: geth 1.4.8
Chance: Excessive
Severity: Excessive
Particulars:
An assault vector has been recognized within the freshly launched implementation of the DAO gentle fork. The fork enactment code in geth (and different shoppers) permits execution of EVM code as much as the block gasoline restrict with out paying for gasoline. This may decelerate mining and stop inclusion of official transactions.
The gentle fork won’t be enabled if the gasoline restrict of block 1800000 is above 4000000 gasoline (i.e. if the neighborhood vote to activate the fork fails). The assault can’t be carried out on this case.
Results on anticipated chain reorganisation depth: None
Proposed momentary workarounds:
- run geth 1.4.7
- run geth 1.4.8 with out the –dao-soft-fork command line possibility.
Comply with-up motion:
Out there choices are being thought-about. The neighborhood can keep away from any detrimental penalties of the gentle fork by voting in opposition to it till a greater answer has been discovered. Notice that, to the very best of our data, no funds will be retrieved from the affected DAOs till July 14th 2016. There isn’t a fast urgency to dam transactions whereas additional proposals are being labored out.
