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by ryanlol 3147 days ago
It is an Ethereum vulnerability, not a vulnerability in Ethereum.

The current title 'A major vulnerability has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars of Ethereum' sounds perfectly accurate.

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By that standard "A major wallet vulnerability" would probably be more perfectly accurate.
This is not a wallet vulnerability.

This was a vulnerability in an ethereum smart contract, it is code running on the ethereum network.

It's both. It's a bug in a library that wallet contracts import. Everything is working perfectly as intended on the Ethereum/Solidity end.