[Bro] working with MS15-034

Nicholas Weaver nweaver at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Apr 16 10:23:12 PDT 2015


> On Apr 16, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Vlad Grigorescu <vlad at grigorescu.org> wrote:
> 
> Well... they're not equal. :-)
> 
> magic is 18446744073709551615,
> while d is 18446740000000000000

Stupid question:  Since the goal is an overflow of a 64 bit number, why not

to_double("Range_targe") > 9.1e+17?

You could theoretically have someone who really really wants byte 18446740000000000000 in a file, but really, how does the semantics work for "normal"?

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