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RETURNDATA corruption via datacopy

High
holiman published GHSA-9856-9gg9-qcmq Aug 24, 2021

Package

gomod go-ethereum (Go)

Affected versions

>= 1.10.0

Patched versions

1.10.8

Description

Impact

A vulnerability in the Geth EVM could cause a node to reject the canonical chain.

Description

A memory-corruption bug within the EVM can cause a consensus error, where vulnerable nodes obtain a different stateRoot when processing a maliciously crafted transaction. This, in turn, would lead to the chain being split in two forks.

All Geth versions supporting the London hard fork are vulnerable (which predates London), so all users should update.

This bug was exploited on Mainnet at block 13107518, leading to a minority chain split.

Patches

A patch is included in the v1.10.8 release.
The exact patch to fix the issue is contained within this commit

Workarounds

No workarounds exist, save to update and/or apply the patch commit.

References.

Post-mortem write-up.

Credits

The bug was found by @guidovranken (working for Sentnl during an audit of the Telos EVM) and reported via [email protected].

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Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2021-39137

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits