[PATCH] Fix for ipv6 address merge error reported on argus mailing list.

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Mon Jul 2 09:12:22 EDT 2018


Hey Frank,
We’ll release a new version of open source argus in the Aug/Sept time frame. Until then can you use the patch ??
Carter

> On Jul 2, 2018, at 4:59 AM, Frank <argus-mailinglist-1524134246 at f-block.org> wrote:
> 
> thx!
> 
> is it possible to get that version somewhere?
> 
> On 06/29/2018 05:56 PM, Carter Bullard wrote:
>> IPv6 address merging generated short or mangled results.
>> Fixed issue where not looking at right part of the address for comparison.
>> Needed to ntohl the 32-bit chunk that was being compared.
>> 
>> (cherry picked from commit 97b17fb3da6cde58f1d2386315fb9e746dd76c85)
>> ---
>> common/argus_client.c | 12 +++++++-----
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/common/argus_client.c b/common/argus_client.c
>> index 013fea6e..7603f33b 100644
>> --- a/common/argus_client.c
>> +++ b/common/argus_client.c
>> @@ -6946,15 +6946,17 @@ ArgusMergeAddress(unsigned int *a1, unsigned int *a2, int type, int dir, unsigne
>>          for (z = 0; z < 4; z++) {
>>             if (a1[z] != a2[z]) {
>>                unsigned int i = 32, value = 0, ind;
>> +               unsigned int na1 = ntohl(a1[z]);
>> +               unsigned int na2 = ntohl(a2[z]);
>>                ind = 0x80000000;
>> 
>> -               while (ind && ((*a1 & ind) == (*a2 & ind)) && (i > (32 - *masklen))) {
>> -                  value |= (*a1 & ind);
>> -                  ind >>= 1; 
>> +               while (ind && ((na1 & ind) == (na2 & ind))) {
>> +                  value |= (na1 & ind);
>> +                  ind >>= 1;
>>                   i--;
>> -               }  
>> +               }
>>                *masklen = (z * 32) + (32 - i);
>> -               a1[z] = value;
>> +               a1[z] = htonl(value);
>>                while ((z + 1) < 4) {
>>                   a1[z + 1] = 0;
>>                   z++;
> 
> 

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