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Vyper has incorrect re-entrancy lock when key is empty string

GHSA-3hg2-r75x-g69m · CVE-2023-42441 · PYSEC-2023-305

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Description

Impact

Locks of the type @nonreentrant("") or @nonreentrant('') do not produce reentrancy checks at runtime.

@nonreentrant("") # unprotected
@external
def bar():
    pass

@nonreentrant("lock") # protected
@external
def foo():
    pass

Patches

Patched in #3605

Workarounds

The lock name should be a non-empty string.

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