bitcoinjs-lib: Error: RangeError: value out of range when decoding raw tx

Hi, I ran into issues when decoding some raw transactions, some will decode, some will not.

const bitcoinjs = require('bitcoinjs-lib')

const network = {
  messagePrefix: '\x18Monaize Signed Message:\n',
  bip32: {
    public: 0x0488B21E,
    private: 0x0488ADE4
  },
  pubKeyHash: 0x3c,
  scriptHash: 0x55,
  wif: 0xbc
}

let txValid = 
"0100000001605050d7b78352da4332f5f2798e33b3997a7ae296ff8369edcf1eb52c9ad4d6010000006b483045022100e950b4720dd6d4be823a02a70564a80b0174385e9c5242cb57f9ec1d6ac65ee002205b56ef3323d538b2aaa6579b8a17f3d1f5e6164e6b03873d03e608b2bdf848ba012103668e3368c9fb67d8fc808a5fe74d5a8d21b6eed726838122d5f7716fb3328998ffffffff0200e1f505000000001976a91486c7b9ada0107304932a603f19a57a4478d1a7e988ac00382e1b1f0000001976a91473122bcec852f394e51496e39fca5111c3d7ae5688ac00000000"

let txNonValid = 
"0100000001d6987930e07b72810a4be2b92f057b242e9d503452bee254e39c87e57fc3b4b6000000006b483045022100ce1ca28aa02102fce86c712a4dda983b3285cd78ece7108d4a4865cfaa4199ba022035996623faafef94da3ba4de1def041ac21950e82c9fa8d4ab32bc8f70502046012102300d29dc3ffc0e0b28abc64c04458bb57180a7c280fc65108460e16878d86c19feffffff021ab4ec6cc6b858001976a91438cbde195a5f6f6d3863e9dd33643fbf8d2d315f88acc054d228950000001976a91473122bcec852f394e51496e39fca5111c3d7ae5688acd2e8935a"

let decodedTx = bitcoinjs.Transaction.fromHex(txValid, network)
console.log(decodedTx)

let decodedTxNonValid = bitcoinjs.Transaction.fromHex(txNonValid, network)
console.log(decodedTxNonValid);

On the second tx I get this :

/home/xx/src/testbjs/node_modules/bitcoinjs-lib/src/bufferutils.js:8
  if (value > max) throw new Error('RangeError: value out of range')
                   ^

Error: RangeError: value out of range
    at verifuint (/home/xx/src/testbjs/node_modules/bitcoinjs-lib/src/bufferutils.js:8:26)
    at Object.readUInt64LE (/home/xx/src/testbjs/node_modules/bitcoinjs-lib/src/bufferutils.js:17:3)
    at readUInt64 (/home/xx/src/testbjs/node_modules/bitcoinjs-lib/src/transaction.js:69:25)
    at Function.Transaction.fromBuffer (/home/xx/src/testbjs/node_modules/bitcoinjs-lib/src/transaction.js:118:14)
    at Function.Transaction.fromHex (/home/xx/src/testbjs/node_modules/bitcoinjs-lib/src/transaction.js:141:22)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/xxx/src/testbjs/index.js:23:47)
    at Module._compile (module.js:643:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:654:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:556:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:499:12)

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 20 (11 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

You can split change if you want.

if (change > 90 * 1e6 * 1e8) {
  change1 = Math.ceil(change/2)
  change2 = change - change1
  txb.addOutput(address, change1)
  txb.addOutput(address, change2)
}

hehe

dabura667 on Mar 21, 2018

LOL, in 2021 people still using joke coins

Pheromon on Oct 3, 2021

oh yeah! I forgot, javascript is special! 😄

junderw on Feb 27, 2018

But I guess just keeping the rule: “Do not send more than 90 million coins to one output” is not a hard rule to follow… lol

dabura667 on Mar 21, 2018

Hi, Sorry for the late feedback. It is a real issue, but with v8 engine, since we have high initial supply with our coin(s) the maximum integer isn’t enough. We fixed the issue by dividing supply in many accounts… But the real solution would be to use something like https://github.com/peterolson/BigInteger.js I guess

askz on Mar 21, 2018

Monaize is Komodo fork, that is Zcash fork, that is Bitcoin fork… (phew) It does handle tx serialization the same way for transparent to transparent address, which is the case here. And I can confirm this issue happens on freshly mined block… maybe it is the problem?

askz on Feb 27, 2018

@junderw

> (Math.pow(2, 53) - 1).toString(16)
'1fffffffffffff'

(64-bit floats lose precision after 53-bits, yay Javascript)

dcousens on Feb 27, 2018