Full_Name: nick hudson
Version: 2.3.38
OS: linux
URL:
Submission from: (NULL) (62.3.217.250)
I think there is a bug in libraries/libldap/tls.c - specifically in this
section:
#ifdef LDAP_PF_INET6
if (name[0] == '[' && strchr(name, ']')) {
char *n2 = ldap_strdup(name+1);
*strchr(n2, ']') = 2;
if (inet_pton(AF_INET6, n2, &addr))
ntype = IS_IP6;
LDAP_FREE(n2);
} else
#endif
the code is attempting to detect whether part of an LDAP URL represents an IPv6
address; it passes the string to inet_pton(), after removing square brackets.
But I think this line:
*strchr(n2, ']') = 2;
is wrong: shouldn't it be using 0 instead of 2?
When testing on my local system, using the code above always results in
inet_pton returning 0 (not an IPv6 address) - if I modify the strchr line to use
zero instead, then inet_pton returns 1 for valid IPv6 addresses.
I may be missing something - "2" seems a peculiar value to use so perhaps it
does have some special significance - but I think the code as it stands is
incorrect.