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ecrecover related bugs are not detected(Support for SWC-122) #1161

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It doesn't detect ecrecover failing upon invalid input

How to Reproduce

See the following piece of code:

https://gist.github.com/HarryR/cce52596ffebdff2744c5d790888015a

This was caused by a compiler bug in Solidity < 0.4.14, where the output memory area for the ecrecover call wasn't cleared, which means in the case of an invalid signature the memory may contain user-controllable input.

If the contract address is passed in as the last 20 bytes of the 32-byte stuff2hash input, then the if condition will be true and the contract will send all funds to the caller.

This was recently highlighted as a problem with the 0x contracts, see: https://samczsun.com/the-0x-vulnerability-explained/

Expected behavior

this bug should be detected

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