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From: "Kamil Jońca" <kjonca@op.pl>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibly dangerous interpretation of address/prefix pair in -s option
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:30:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d5xodsi.fsf@alfa.kjonca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <010201812a0fb624-e64464be-4c31-4d01-afb6-1cbfab70e333-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com> (Stefan Riha's message of "Fri, 3 Jun 2022 14:54:41 +0000")

Stefan Riha <stefan@sriha.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a beginner and noticed than when I do e.g.
> 
> iptables -A INPUT ... -s 10.0.0.2/24 ...
> 
> this gets interpreted as "allow from source 10.0.0.0/24" i.e. from the
> entire network. I think it would be more beginner-proof if iptables
> would interpret this as incorrect input and error. Or at least,

I am afraid that you will not find allies here.
Interpreting this as bitmask notation is quite long tradition, and I am
afrait that noone wants to put extra code here,

KJ



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-03 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mail.629a20b0.7e37.7f80bf761b5d8a04@storage.wm.amazon.com>
2022-06-03 14:54 ` Possibly dangerous interpretation of address/prefix pair in -s option Stefan Riha
2022-06-03 15:21   ` Reindl Harald
2022-06-08 10:38     ` Chris Hall
2022-06-08 11:21       ` Florian Westphal
2022-06-09 17:52         ` Chris Hall
2022-06-09 18:38           ` Reindl Harald
2022-06-09 19:21             ` Joshua Moore
2022-06-09 19:23           ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2022-06-08 11:34       ` matt
2022-06-08 11:37       ` Matt
2022-06-08 12:59       ` Reindl Harald
2022-06-08 13:30       ` Benny Lyne Amorsen
2022-06-03 17:30   ` Kamil Jońca [this message]
     [not found] ` <010201812a366a81-2f2bc7f3-e142-4807-9742-bfa7b19dd468-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
     [not found]   ` <e2ba2738-2eff-3e97-a389-77abd17664dd@thelounge.net>
     [not found]     ` <mail.629a2dfb.57ab.496a0a414c9495b2@storage.wm.amazon.com>
     [not found]       ` <010201812a43a0d9-c4953858-f0e1-48db-a7a3-420d53a11cd7-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
     [not found]         ` <df64386a-5daf-6f97-3d37-b0c9b7c25537@thelounge.net>
     [not found]           ` <mail.629a3289.7fbb.1b2912350cfc7c1b@storage.wm.amazon.com>
     [not found]             ` <010201812a556c50-7856ee86-1a5a-4135-8acf-869a930d54c8-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
     [not found]               ` <768e4d99-0c50-01af-4434-20378c06a3cf@thelounge.net>
     [not found]                 ` <mail.629a35d7.2a64.4a0b184f3a85fa1c@storage.wm.amazon.com>
     [not found]                   ` <010201812a625427-9b51500d-3126-4b6f-95d0-d71702c349a7-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
     [not found]                     ` <b6945516-3120-24f0-9990-294f1653c9a4@thelounge.net>
     [not found]                       ` <mail.629a388a.7bba.0e9843742ea45568@storage.wm.amazon.com>
     [not found]                         ` <010201812a6ce183-1a849304-791a-4874-9668-23f871060bac-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
     [not found]                           ` <mail.629a3f4f.4e0b.2e3e82745c98ed1d@storage.wm.amazon.com>
     [not found]                             ` <06924b12-8664-1e96-2a0b-d3711bbb67d7@thelounge.net>
2022-06-03 17:05                               ` Stefan Riha
2022-06-03 17:28                                 ` Alex Buie
2022-06-03 17:30                                   ` Alex Buie
2022-06-03 18:23                                     ` Stefan Riha
2022-06-03 21:40                                       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2022-06-04  6:45                                         ` Stefan Riha
2022-06-04 11:34                                           ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2022-06-04 12:32                                           ` Reindl Harald
2022-06-04 13:06                                             ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2022-06-04 13:11                                               ` Reindl Harald
2022-06-04 14:07                                               ` Stefan Riha
2022-06-08 13:56                                                 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2022-06-08 14:34                                                   ` Stefan Riha
2022-06-09 20:28                                                     ` Gordon Fisher
2022-06-03 23:37                                       ` Timothy Ham
2022-06-04  5:29                                         ` pigi
2022-06-09 14:21                                       ` Gordon Fisher

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