CVE-2022-36008: Incorrect parsing of EVM reversion exit reason in RPC

August 18, 2022 (updated August 26, 2022)

A low severity security issue was discovered affecting parsing of the RPC result of the exit reason in case of EVM reversion. In release build, this would cause the exit reason being incorrectly parsed and returned by RPC. In debug build, this would cause an overflow panic.

No action is needed unless you have a bridge node that needs to distinguish different reversion exit reasons and you used RPC for this.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-mjvm-mhgc-q4gp
github.com/paritytech/frontier
github.com/paritytech/frontier/commit/fff8cc43b7756ce3979a38fc473f38e6e24ac451
github.com/paritytech/frontier/pull/820
github.com/paritytech/frontier/security/advisories/GHSA-mjvm-mhgc-q4gp
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36008

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