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GHSA-cjg2-2fjg-fph4
No affected components available
Impact
A bug in Frontier's MODEXP precompile implementation can cause an integer underflow in certain conditions. This will cause a node crash for debug builds. For release builds (and production WebAssembly binaries), the impact is limited as it can only cause a normal EVM out-of-gas. It is recommended that you apply the patch as soon as possible.
If you do not use MODEXP precompile in your runtime, then you are not impacted.
Patches
Patches are applied in PR #549.
Workarounds
None.
References
Patch PR: #549
Credits
Thanks to SR-Labs for discovering the security vulnerability, and thanks to PureStake team for the patches.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in the Frontier repo
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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