From 08be0ca32ad69e9ebf28fe26aa85990700c81cf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Vogt Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:57:50 +0200 Subject: StringToBool: only act if the entire string is consumed by strtol() StringToBool uses strtol() internally to check if the argument is a number. This function stops when it does not find any more numbers. So a string like "0ad" (which is a valid packagename) is interpreted as a "0". The code now checks that the entire string is consumed not just a part of it. Thanks to Johannes Schauer for raising this issue. --- apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc') diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc index ce69c7a02..922229e90 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc +++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc @@ -704,9 +704,12 @@ string LookupTag(const string &Message,const char *Tag,const char *Default) then returns the result. Several varients on true/false are checked. */ int StringToBool(const string &Text,int Default) { - char *End; - int Res = strtol(Text.c_str(),&End,0); - if (End != Text.c_str() && Res >= 0 && Res <= 1) + char *ParseEnd; + int Res = strtol(Text.c_str(),&ParseEnd,0); + // ensure that the entire string was converted by strtol to avoid + // failures on "apt-cache show -a 0ad" where the "0" is converted + const char *TextEnd = Text.c_str()+Text.size(); + if (ParseEnd == TextEnd && Res >= 0 && Res <= 1) return Res; // Check for positives -- cgit v1.2.3