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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:31:49 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: err in rules processor and dirty fix [rules.c]
On 15 Mar, 2013, at 17:51 , Costin Enache <e_costin@...oo.com> wrote:
> Ugly thing in the rule processor, when the rules are using \xHH representation and the rule line size exceeds 0x100; this is only my particular case, it can generate errors in many other ways.
>
> The (params.h) RULE_BUFFER_SIZE is used for the rule pre-processor output, as defined in rpp.h:
> /* Current rule after preprocessing */
> char output[RULE_BUFFER_SIZE];
>
> The same RULE_BUFFER_SIZE is used in rules.c in rules_reject:
> char *rules_reject(char *rule, int split, char *last, struct db_main *db)
> {
> static char out_rule[RULE_BUFFER_SIZE];
>
> The rules_reject function is called for unprocessed data, as it comes from the config file, for example to remote duplicate rules (rules_load_normalized_list).
>
> The unprocessed data can easily be over 0x100, such as in my unfortunate case, when using \xHH for a long character list. In this case the remove duplicates function will only compare the first 0x100 bytes of the rules – dumping all the rules which begin with the same 0x100 bytes.
>
> Quick and dumb fix, not sure that it is 100% ok and what else it breaks, but it solves my hex encoding problem:
>
> --- rules.c.orig 2013-03-15 17:34:14.000000000 +0100
> +++ rules.c 2013-03-15 17:34:22.000000000 +0100
> @@ -701,7 +701,7 @@
> char *rules_reject(char *rule, int split, char *last, struct db_main *db)
> {
> - static char out_rule[RULE_BUFFER_SIZE];
> + static char out_rule[4*RULE_BUFFER_SIZE];
> while (RULE)
> switch (LAST) {
Thank for reporting this! I'm pretty sure your fix is OK (perhaps similar fixes need to be in more places?). I will apply it to bleeding and do some testing. If all seems fine and unless Solar see a caveat, I will commit it to unstable.
magnum
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