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Wrong cast
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Description
Version and Platform (required):
- Binary Ninja Version: 3.6.4706-dev Personal
- OS: Windows
- OS Version: Windows 11
- CPU Architecture: x64
Bug Description:
Wrong cast
Steps To Reproduce:
Please provide all steps required to reproduce the behavior:
- Open "challenge" file
- Goto 0xdbf
- Change windows to Pseudo C
Expected Behavior:
read_long() should be casted to (int32_t) instead of (int64_t)
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Research direction
Start by opening the provided challenge.zip in Binary Ninja 3.6.4706-dev on Windows, navigating to 0xdbf, and viewing the function in Pseudo C. Compare the generated cast for read_long() with the expected int32_t result; done means the output uses int32_t rather than int64_t for this case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100