This is a Consensus vulnerability, which can be used to cause a chain-split where vulnerable nodes reject the canonical chain.
Geth’s pre-compiled dataCopy
(at 0x00...04
) contract did a shallow copy on invocation. An attacker could deploy a contract that
X
to an EVM memory region R
,0x00..04
with R
as an argument,R
to Y
,RETURNDATACOPY
opcode.When this contract is invoked, a consensus-compliant node would push X
on the EVM stack, whereas Geth would push Y
.
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/vm
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{ "nvd_published_at": null, "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-682" ], "severity": "MODERATE", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2021-05-21T21:51:49Z" }