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[3/7] libxt_u32: do bounds checking for @'s operands

Message ID 1343496069-5442-4-git-send-email-jengelh@inai.de
State Accepted
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Jan Engelhardt July 28, 2012, 5:21 p.m. UTC 
Using only strtoul is prone to accept all values, including negative
ones which are not explicitly allowed. Therefore, use xtables_strtoui
with bounds checking.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
---
 extensions/libxt_u32.c |   12 ++++--------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/extensions/libxt_u32.c b/extensions/libxt_u32.c
index 6d024fb..2a7f5d8 100644
--- a/extensions/libxt_u32.c
+++ b/extensions/libxt_u32.c
@@ -88,17 +88,13 @@  static void u32_dump(const struct xt_u32 *data)
 /* string_to_number() is not quite what we need here ... */
 static uint32_t parse_number(const char **s, int pos)
 {
-	uint32_t number;
+	unsigned int number;
 	char *end;
 
-	errno  = 0;
-	number = strtoul(*s, &end, 0);
-	if (end == *s)
+	if (!xtables_strtoui(*s, &end, &number, 0, UINT32_MAX) ||
+	    end == *s)
 		xtables_error(PARAMETER_PROBLEM,
-			   "u32: at char %d: expected number", pos);
-	if (errno != 0)
-		xtables_error(PARAMETER_PROBLEM,
-			   "u32: at char %d: error reading number", pos);
+			"u32: at char %d: not a number or out of range", pos);
 	*s = end;
 	return number;
 }