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Bug #25487 ip2long() uses the obsolete inet_addr() interface
Submitted: 2003-09-11 06:31 UTC Modified: 2003-09-12 00:07 UTC
From: ckruse at wwwtech dot de Assigned: iliaa (profile)
Status: Wont fix Package: Network related
PHP Version: 4.3.3 OS: All
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-09-11 06:31 UTC] ckruse at wwwtech dot de
Description:
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PHP uses in the ip2long() function the obsolete inet_addr() interface which makes it impossible to detect errors in the input values: inet_addr() converts 255.255.255.255 to -1, which is correct. But in error case it also returns INADDR_NONE, wich is usually defined as -1. Therefore the inet_aton() function should be used. I made a little patch which corrects this.

Actual result:
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>   struct in_addr in;
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<       RETURN_LONG(ntohl(inet_addr(Z_STRVAL_PP(str))));
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>   if(inet_aton(Z_STRVAL_PP(str),&inp) == 0) {
>     php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "Invalid address");
>     RETURN_NULL();
>   }
> 
>   RETURN_LONG(ntohl(inp.s_addr));


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 [2003-09-12 00:07 UTC] iliaa@php.net
ip2long() cannot return FALSE because it would break backwards compatibility. This in turn makes changing inet_addr() to inet_aton(), which is not avaliable on all systems pointless.
 
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