Fix Deployed for Bug That Risked Minting XRP Beyond Its Fixed Supply Limit

RippleX says no evidence of exploitation was found after an emergency fix, version 3.4.1, addressed the flaw. The team behind the XRP Ledger disclosed a software flaw that could have let someone mint XRP tokens beyond the network's fixed supply cap. The bug involved an overflow condition, a type of coding error where a calculation exceeds the limits a system can handle, producing unintended results. In blockchain contexts, overflow bugs are considered serious. They can corrupt accounting logic that is supposed to keep a token's total supply fixed.

Source: TheCoinrise