ChainSecurity Reveals Ethereum Constantinople Upgrade Activates Reentrancy Attack

Ethereum’s (ETH) approaching Constantinople upgrade activates vectors for reentrancy attacks, as per ChainSecurity – a smart contract auditing platform, according to a Medium report on January 15, 2019. A reentrancy attack engages a particular function in a smart contract to be called several times before the smart contract is completely performed.

As per ChainSecurity, post-Constantinople upgrade, the functions “address.transfer(….)” & “address.send(….) are susceptible to attack in Solidity smart contracts. Employing these functions, a malicious attacker can call an attack function on his individual smart contract and slip other user’s ETHs out of the contract.

Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/chainsecurity-reveals-ethereum-constantinople-upgrade/