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Re: Possible signed/unsigned confusion in plugin 22529

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Subject: Re: Possible signed/unsigned confusion in plugin 22529
From: Bob Babcock <rbabcock@cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:55:23 -0500 (EST)
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> > Windows Nessus scanning Windows machines.
> > 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.
> 
> Which version of the DLL is installed on the remote host ?

2.0.50727.210.  Windows Update and Shavlik NetChk Protect both say the
machine is up to date.  I even reran the KB922770 update manually and got no
error messages.

Thanks for the pointer to nasl2 documentation.
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