Tags: misc overflow

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Let's see what we have here


'Demon Guard Flageon: Who dares to disturb my slumber?
...
A human?

You: yes

Demon Guard Flageon: Listen close, yes.
To pass through you must give me a key of certain shape and size.
I do not expect mere mortals to pass this test and win the Flag of Life.
So here is a hint: the shape of the key is a square.
But I will not tell you the size.
You have 3 tries!

| How lucky! Look in your backpack. You have a square-key-making device.
| huh... weird thing to carry around if you ask me.
| Anyways.
| The problem is the device needs the edge length as input to make the key...

Input edge length: 1

*mechanical whirring*
...
*pop*

Demon Guard Flageon: The size of your key is off by 1 sq cm.
You have 2 more attempts left

Input edge length: 5

*mechanical whirring*
...
*pop*

Demon Guard Flageon: The size of your key is off by 25 sq cm.
You have 1 more attempts left

Input edge length: 9

*mechanical whirring*
...
*pop*

Demon Guard Flageon: The size of your key is off by 81 sq cm.
You have 0 more attempts left



Seems like we need to reach the size of 0 somehow, let's see what we are able to do


'Demon Guard Flageon: Who dares to disturb my slumber?
...
A human?

You: kokos

Demon Guard Flageon: Listen close, kokos.
To pass through you must give me a key of certain shape and size.
I do not expect mere mortals to pass this test and win the Flag of Life.
So here is a hint: the shape of the key is a square.
But I will not tell you the size.
You have 3 tries!

| How lucky! Look in your backpack. You have a square-key-making device.
| huh... weird thing to carry around if you ask me.
| Anyways.
| The problem is the device needs the edge length as input to make the key...

Input edge length: 0

| Device only takes positive integers as input |

Input edge length: -1

| Device only takes positive integers as input |

Input edge length: 50000

*mechanical whirring*
...
*pop*

Demon Guard Flageon: The size of your key is off by -1794967296 sq cm.
You have 0 more attempts left



Whoopa seems like we have an 32bit integer overflow here. Knowing that sqrt(4294967295) ~= 65536, we should have everything needed to solve this challenge.


'Demon Guard Flageon: Who dares to disturb my slumber?
...
A human?

You: kokos

Demon Guard Flageon: Listen close, kokos.
To pass through you must give me a key of certain shape and size.
I do not expect mere mortals to pass this test and win the Flag of Life.
So here is a hint: the shape of the key is a square.
But I will not tell you the size.
You have 3 tries!

| How lucky! Look in your backpack. You have a square-key-making device.
| huh... weird thing to carry around if you ask me.
| Anyways.
| The problem is the device needs the edge length as input to make the key...

Input edge length: 65536

*mechanical whirring*
...
*pop*

Demon Guard Flageon: Congratulation! You have completed this task.
The Flag of Life is now your's

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| darkCTF{-2147483648_c0m3s_aft3r_2147483647} |
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Nice :)