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Date:      Tue, 10 May 2005 10:00:58 -0700
From:      Jon Simola <jsimola@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/73276: ipfw2 vulnerability (parser error)
Message-ID:  <8eea04080505101000d1180ce@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200505101350.j4ADonjj053834@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200505101350.j4ADonjj053834@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 5/10/05, Tilman Linneweh <arved@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Synopsis: ipfw2 vulnerability (parser error)
>=20
> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-ipfw
> Responsible-Changed-By: arved
> Responsible-Changed-When: Tue May 10 13:50:30 GMT 2005
> Responsible-Changed-Why:
> Over to ipfw mailinglist
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D73276

More accurately, anything after the closing '}' is ignored by the
parser. I'm pretty sure this fixes that.

--- ipfw2.c.orig        Tue May 10 08:45:12 2005
+++ ipfw2.c     Tue May 10 09:53:08 2005
@@ -2088,8 +2088,11 @@
                        i =3D -1;
                        if (*s =3D=3D '-')
                            i =3D a;
-                       else if (*s =3D=3D '}')
+                       else if (*s =3D=3D '}') {
+                           if (strlen(s) > 1)
+                               errx(EX_DATAERR, "trailing garbage after '}=
'");
                            break;
+                       }
                        av =3D s+1;
                }
                return;



--=20
Jon Simola
Systems Administrator
ABC Communications



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