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 fuel restrict with out paying for fuel. This may decelerate mining and stop inclusion of respectable transactions.
The gentle fork won’t be enabled if the fuel restrict of block 1800000 is above 4000000 fuel (i.e. if the group vote to activate the fork fails). The assault can’t be carried out on this case.
Results on anticipated chain reorganisation depth: None
Proposed short-term workarounds:
- run geth 1.4.7
- run geth 1.4.8 with out the –dao-soft-fork command line choice.
Comply with-up motion:
Out there choices are being thought of. The group can keep away from any adverse penalties of the gentle fork by voting towards it till a greater answer has been discovered. Notice that, to the most effective of our data, no funds will be retrieved from the affected DAOs till July 14th 2016. There is no such thing as a fast urgency to dam transactions whereas additional proposals are being labored out.
