---
id: 1445
title: "Killing Filecoin nodes"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/11/13/killing-filecoin-nodes/"
published_at: "2024-11-13 11:00"
tags: ["denial-of-service", "vulnerability-disclosure", "blockchain", "trail-of-bits", "filecoin", "index-validation"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1445"
lang: en
---

# Killing Filecoin nodes

## Summary

Trail of Bits details a DoS bug in Filecoin's Lotus and Venus clients: faulty index validation triggers an out-of-range panic that crashes nodes; fixed by using unsigned integers.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2024-11-13 11:00
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/11/13/killing-filecoin-nodes/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1445