Re: [Mod-security-developers] ModSecurity 2.6.7: PCRE version check

[Breno S. <bre...@gm...>]

Let me check in the lib pcre history if 8.2 means (two) or twenty :)

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Breno Silva <bre...@gm...> wrote:

> I reverted it.
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> Are you sure your idea will prevents 8.2 and 8.02 are considered equal ?
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> Thanks
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> Breno
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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Peter Heimann <hei...@we...> wrote:
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>> Breno Silva wrote:
>> > Can you send me your warning message ?
>> >
>> > We applied it to avoid version mismatch like 8.2 == 8.02
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>> Example warning (5.0 compiled in and loaded):
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>> [notice] ModSecurity: PCRE compiled version="5.00"; loaded version="5.0
>> 13-Sep-2004"
>> [warn] ModSecurity: Loaded PCRE do not match with compiled!
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>> pcre_version() is implemented as
>>   XSTRING(PCRE_MAJOR.PCRE_MINOR PCRE_DATE)
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>> I propose to use in ModSecurity:
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>>     pcre_vrs = apr_psprintf(mp,"%d.%d ", PCRE_MAJOR, PCRE_MINOR);
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>> (note the space, which prevents that "8.2 " and "8.20" are considered
>> equal).
>>
>> --
>> Peter Heimann
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