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A comment on size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer. Parent comment

Re:size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer by eloff on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:09PM (#27897890)
I'm not familiar with the Ethereum virtual machine, are these really memory pointers? Surely it's represented differently?
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Re:size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer by mgraczyk on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:59PM (#27898501)
EVM is a stack machine, and it has durable storage which is addressed using 256 bit "pointers". So you can do something like

    push x // 256 bit constant
    LOAD
    // top of stack now contains storage[x]
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