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author | Evgeny Medvedev <evgeny@kitchenup.com> | 2017-11-14 03:49:40 +0800 |
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committer | Alex Beregszaszi <alex@rtfs.hu> | 2017-12-12 11:31:00 +0800 |
commit | 2f6f81640bca9fb358db12b088ff82f9b4f132bd (patch) | |
tree | 78675ce8325c3d87255da05e8fa8e018c6597dae /docs/security-considerations.rst | |
parent | 539b8f3b45183ea28219ab31bea73ea033616006 (diff) | |
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Add another contract with call to demonstrate re-entrancy vulnerability.
Add another contract with call to demonstrate re-entrancy vulnerability as send explicitly sets gas to 2300 by default according to this commit 9ca7472 which makes it impossible to "get multiple refunds" because a non-zero CALL costs at least 9700 gas. This issue is discussed on Ethereum StackExchange https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/30371/send-ether-reentrancy-attack-in-reality-how-could-fallback-function-make-a-mes/30616#30616
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diff --git a/docs/security-considerations.rst b/docs/security-considerations.rst index 337a3d3f..197e80e5 100644 --- a/docs/security-considerations.rst +++ b/docs/security-considerations.rst @@ -72,7 +72,24 @@ The problem is not too serious here because of the limited gas as part of ``send``, but it still exposes a weakness: Ether transfer always includes code execution, so the recipient could be a contract that calls back into ``withdraw``. This would let it get multiple refunds and -basically retrieve all the Ether in the contract. +basically retrieve all the Ether in the contract. In particular, the +following contract will allow an attacker to refund multiple times +as it uses ``call`` which forwards all remaining gas by default: + +:: + + pragma solidity ^0.4.0; + + // THIS CONTRACT CONTAINS A BUG - DO NOT USE + contract Fund { + /// Mapping of ether shares of the contract. + mapping(address => uint) shares; + /// Withdraw your share. + function withdraw() { + if (msg.sender.call.value(shares[msg.sender])()) + shares[msg.sender] = 0; + } + } To avoid re-entrancy, you can use the Checks-Effects-Interactions pattern as outlined further below: |