Bug#932880: invalid octals silently parsed as zero

Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363 On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:04:17 +1000 "Trent W. Buck" wrote: > Package: nftables > Version: 0.9.1-2 > Severity: important > > I was aligning literal numbers with leading zeroes (instead of

Bug#932880: invalid octals silently parsed as zero

Package: nftables Version: 0.9.1-2 Severity: important I was aligning literal numbers with leading zeroes (instead of spaces). I found that nft treats "010" as an octal number, i.e. 010 = 8. Fine. But nft also thinks that 099 = 0! nft should error out when it encounters such an invalid octal. A