CVE-2020-26240 Erroneous Proof of Work calculation in geth

Go Ethereum, or "Geth", is the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. An ethash mining DAG generation flaw in Geth before version 1.9.24 could cause miners to erroneously calculate PoW in an upcoming epoch estimated early January, 2021. This happened on the ETC chain on...

CVE-2020-26240

CVE-2020-26240 affects Go Ethereum (Geth). The issue is an ethash mining DAG generation flaw that could cause miners to compute PoW incorrectly in an upcoming epoch; non-mining nodes are unaffected. Affected software: Geth prior to version 1.9.24. Root cause: DAG generation flaw in ethash logic. ...