From reading, I think the main consequence of this bug is that a
previously-unauthorized spender calling transfer_from can write a 0 to the
temporary storage for their own allowance; though it also seems to allow
unintended behavior like allowing authorized spenders to extend the ttl of the
allowance without transfering.
As far as I know this bug does not have a security impact.
This fixes a low severity bug in a token contract in this repo.
This repo contains code copied from the Soroban example token, code which recieved a fix in the upstream repo that has not been applied here.
The fix in question, from December, is in this commit:
https://github.com/stellar/soroban-examples/commit/c7947120dc3ef92345d6e019737065d916cfae9d#diff-02d9e91ec617d641664acc20ed164964099f2b96a099109d42cdbb80d44087aeR56
From reading, I think the main consequence of this bug is that a previously-unauthorized spender calling transfer_from can write a 0 to the temporary storage for their own allowance; though it also seems to allow unintended behavior like allowing authorized spenders to extend the ttl of the allowance without transfering.
As far as I know this bug does not have a security impact.