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Low · 3.7 CVE-2024-24560 EUVD-2024-0175GHSA-gp3w-2v2m-p686PYSEC-2024-148

Vyper external calls can overflow return data to return input buffer

Published Feb 2, 2024 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. When calls to external contracts are made, we write the input buffer starting at byte 28, and allocate the return buffer to start at byte 0 (overlapping with the input buffer). When checking RETURNDATASIZE for dynamic types, the size is compared only to the minimum allowed size for that type, and not to the returned value's length. As a result, malformed return data can cause the contract to mistake data from the input buffer for returndata. When the called contract returns invalid ABIv2 encoded data, the calling contract can read different invalid data (from the dirty buffer) than the called contract returned.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vyperlang vyper <= 0.3.10 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI vyper < 0.4.0 0.4.0 GHSA-gp3w-2v2m-p686
PyPI vyper < 0.4.0b1 0.4.0b1 PYSEC-2024-148

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