Oliver Ford <ojford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Oliver Ford <ojford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Fixes the crash reported in Bugzilla #1131 where a malformed
> >> parameter that specifies the table option can create an invalid
> >> pointer.
> >>
> >> Improves the tables option check to find a beginning '-' followed by
> >> a 't' anywhere in the parameter.
> >
> >> diff --git a/iptables/iptables-restore.c b/iptables/iptables-restore.c
> >> index 876fe06..70dc7eb 100644
> >> --- a/iptables/iptables-restore.c
> >> +++ b/iptables/iptables-restore.c
> >> @@ -162,8 +162,7 @@ static void add_param_to_argv(char *parsestart)
> >> param_buffer[param_len] = '\0';
> >>
> >> /* check if table name specified */
> >> - if (!strncmp(param_buffer, "-t", 2)
> >> - || !strncmp(param_buffer, "--table", 8)) {
> >> + if (param_buffer[0] == '-' && strchr(param_buffer, 't')) {
> >> xtables_error(PARAMETER_PROBLEM,
> >> "The -t option (seen in line %u) cannot be "
> >> "used in iptables-restore.\n", line);
> >
> > strchr() can only called if param_buffer[1] != '-', else this breaks
> > something like:
> >
> > # Generated by iptables-save v1.6.0 on Thu May 18 00:00:38 2017
> > *filter
> > :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> > :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
> > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> > --delete foo
> > COMMIT
> >
> > (use '-n' option to iptables).
>
> Good point I'll check for that and send an updated patch.
Forgot to mention: Would be nice to explain in the commit message
why this is needed, e.g. -nt, --tab, etc. are not caught by current
test.
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