On June 6 the company Parity Technologies, the firm that maintains the Ethereum Parity full node client, issued a mandatory update for individuals and businesses who use the Parity software. According to the latest security alert, the client versions, 1.10.6-stable and 1.11.1-beta, had a consensus issue with the public test network Ropsten that could possibly extend to the Ethereum mainnet and “could have led to chain split.”
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Parity Issues a Mandatory Update Due to a Critical Vulnerability
The Parity client has had some issues with bugs back in 2017 that saw the exploitation of thousands of ethereum. Now this week the company Parity Technologies has announced yet another vulnerability that mandates an immediate client upgrade for all Parity users utilizing versions 1.11.1 and prior. Parity technologies deemed the security alert “critical” and asked all Parity patrons to upgrade to 1.11.3-beta as soon as possible.
“A consensus issue on the public test network Ropsten has revealed a consensus vulnerability that can be triggered by a malformed transaction,” explains Parity on June 6. “Examining the issues with our nodes on Ropsten, we have found out that there is a potential consensus-related issue between Parity Ethereum (up to versions 1.10.4-stable and 1.11.1-beta) and all other Ethereum clients.”
Please update your Parity Ethereum clients to 1.11.3-beta or 1.10.6-stable asap.
The Ethereum client Parity has suffered from three critical bugs over the past fourteen months.
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