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Possible signed/unsigned confusion in plugin 22529

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Subject: Possible signed/unsigned confusion in plugin 22529
From: Bob Babcock <rbabcock@cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:34:29 -0500 (EST)
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I'm seeing plugin 22529 triggering when I don't think it should.
In smb_nt_ms06-056.nasl, I see an if test for
  v[2] < 50727
I added a security_note call to print out the values of the v array and got
v[2]=-14809.  Looks like a signed/unsigned 16-bit int confusion.

Is there current documentation for NASL online?  I found a 6 year old
document at http://virtual.dyc.edu/nasl.html
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