OwnerUnderflow: Exploiting an Integer Overflow in BTCR Smart Contract to Unauthorizedly Increase Digital Assets

CVE-2018-11687 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

An integer overflow in the distributeBTR function of a smart contract implementation for Bitcoin Red (BTCR), an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows the owner to accomplish an unauthorized increase of digital assets by providing a large address[] array, as exploited in the wild in May 2018, aka the "ownerUnderflow" issue.

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