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Vyper vulnerable to integer overflow in loop

GHSA-6r8q-pfpv-7cgj · CVE-2023-32058 · PYSEC-2023-78

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Description

Impact

Due to missing overflow check for loop variables, by assigning the iterator of a loop to a variable, it is possible to overflow the type of the latter.

In the following example, calling test returns 354, meaning that the variable a did store 354 a value out of bound for the type uint8.

@external
def test() -> uint16:
    x:uint8 = 255
    a:uint8 = 0
    for i in range(x, x+100):
        a = i
    return convert(a,uint16)

The issue seems to happen only in loops of type for i in range(a, a + N) as in loops of type for i in range(start, stop) and for i in range(stop), the compiler is able to raise a TypeMismatch when trying to overflow the variable.

thanks to @trocher for reporting

Patches

patched in 3de1415ee77a9244eb04bdb695e249d3ec9ed868

Workarounds

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