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Free blockchain storage – Tale of a bug in Substrate’s FRAME runtime

This is the story of a simple bug in the FRAME runtime of Parity’s Substrate blockchain framework. The bug allowed attackers to do infinitely large transactions without paying any extra fees. The vulnerability was the result of a buggy implementation of fee calculation in the FRAME runtime of Substrate. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker […]

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