Annual Conference of KIPS (한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집)

  • 2024.10a
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  • Pages.371-372
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  • 2024
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  • 2005-0011(pISSN)
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  • 2671-7298(eISSN)
Korea Information Processing Society (한국정보처리학회)
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Study of Vulnerabilities in Solana Smart Contracts

솔라나 스마트 계약의 취약점 연구

  • Mahboubeh Bagheri (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Seong-Hwan Park (Dept. of Information Convergence Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Dong-Hyeon Kwon (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • 바게리 마흐부베 (부산대학교 정보컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 박성환 (부산대학교 정보융합공학과) ;
  • 권동현 (부산대학교 정보컴퓨터공학과)
  • Published : 2024.10.31
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Abstract

Solana, a high-performance blockchain platform, is known for its fast transaction speeds and low operational costs, making it a popular choice for decentralized applications. However, its architecture introduces unique security vulnerabilities in smart contracts. This paper presents an analysis of six key vulnerabilities in Solana smart contracts-missing ownership checks, missing signer checks, arithmetic overflow/underflow, cross-program invocation (CPI) vulnerabilities, account confusion, and missing key checks. We further evaluate how automated verification tools like VRust and fuzzing techniques detect these vulnerabilities. Through case studies of widely-used Solana programs like Mango Markets and the Solana Program Library (SPL), we illustrate the effectiveness of these tools in real-world scenarios.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the Special R&D Zone Development Project (R&D) - Development of R&D Innovation Valley support program (2023-DD-RD-0152), supervised by the Innovation Foundation.

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