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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is a post-mortem concerning the minority split that occurred on Ethereum ma
- 2021-08-17: Guido Vranken submitted a bounty report. Investigation started, root cause identified, patch variations discussed. - 2021-08-17: Guido Vranken submitted a bounty report. Investigation started, root cause identified, patch variations discussed.
- 2021-08-18: Made public announcement over twitter about upcoming security release upcoming Tuesday. Downstream projects were also notified about the upcoming patch-release. - 2021-08-18: Made public announcement over twitter about upcoming security release on Tuesday. Downstream projects were also notified about the upcoming patch-release.
- 2021-08-24: Released [v1.10.8](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.10.8) containing the fix on Tuesday morning (CET). Erigon released [v2021.08.04](https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/releases/tag/v2021.08.04). - 2021-08-24: Released [v1.10.8](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.10.8) containing the fix on Tuesday morning (CET). Erigon released [v2021.08.04](https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/releases/tag/v2021.08.04).
- 2021-08-27: At 12:50:07 UTC, issue exploited. Analysis started roughly 30m later, - 2021-08-27: At 12:50:07 UTC, issue exploited. Analysis started roughly 30m later,
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On 2021-08-17, Guido Vranken submitted a report to bounty@ethereum.org. This coincided with a geth-meetup in Berlin, so the geth team could fairly quickly analyse the issue. On 2021-08-17, Guido Vranken submitted a report to bounty@ethereum.org. This coincided with a geth-meetup in Berlin, so the geth team could fairly quickly analyse the issue.
He submitted a proof of concept which called the `dataCopy` precompile, where the input slice and output slice were overlapping but shifted. Doing a `copy` where the `src` and `dest` overlaps is not a problem in itself, however, the `returnData`slice was _also_ using the same memory as a backing-array. He submitted a proof of concept which called the `dataCopy` precompile, where the input slice and output slice were overlapping but shifted. Doing a `copy` where the `src` and `dest` overlaps is not a problem in itself, however, the `returnData` slice was _also_ using the same memory as a backing-array.
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