The burnOverflow Vulnerability in Hexagon (HXG) Smart Contract

CVE-2018-11239 · MEDIUM Severity

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An integer overflow in the _transfer function of a smart contract implementation for Hexagon (HXG), an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows attackers to accomplish an unauthorized increase of digital assets by providing a _to argument in conjunction with a large _value argument, as exploited in the wild in May 2018, aka the "burnOverflow" issue.

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