"Critical" dependency in broken@ethersproject/bytes

[earizon]

• I've opened a support ticket before filing this issue.

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Issue

What the issue is, in broad strokes.

Steps to Reproduce

methodA(address inputVal ) is a mock Solidity pure function returning incomming inputVal.

Next truffle test work as expected:

  result = await contract.methodA.call('0x35987A0F9AE77012a514835D6DC88b708bC646D6'); 
  // ^ result: 0x35987A0F9AE77012a514835D6DC88b708bC646D6

Next execution fails due to a dependency is broken ethersproject/bytes:5.6.1:

  result = await contract.methodA.call('0x4F1C4e17bAa273EdCcB5c49E07ee87D264cFEdfE'); 

The raised exception is:

result: value out of range (argument="value", value=20, code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=bytes/5.6.1)

Expected Behavior

Returned result for contract.methodA.call('0x4F1C4e17bAa273EdCcB5c49E07ee87D264cFEdfE'); returns 0x4F1C4e17bAa273EdCcB5c49E07ee87D264cFEdfE.

Actual Results

An exception is raised value out of range

Environment

• Operating System:
• Ethereum client:
• Truffle version (truffle version): tested with 5.5.29, 5.6.1, 5.6.7
• node version (node --version): 16.17.1
• npm version (npm --version): 9.1.2

The original bug looks to be related to: ethers-io/ethers.js#3017

package.json dependencies used for test execution:

 "devDependencies": {
    "@truffle/hdwallet-provider": "^2.1.2",
    "truffle": "^5.6.7"
 }    

[earizon]

(Closing now. I need to investigate further, I'm not able to reproduce the bug in a new fresh environment)