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Bug #3816

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Coverity scan issue -- null pointer deref in reject dev handling

Added by Jeff Lucovsky over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Victor Julien

Target version:

6.0.0rc1

Affected Versions:

6.0.0beta1

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Difficulty:

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Description


** CID 1465223:  Null pointer dereferences  (FORWARD_NULL)

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*** CID 1465223:  Null pointer dereferences  (FORWARD_NULL)
/src/suricata.c: 1538 in ParseCommandLine()
1532     #endif /* WINDIVERT */
1533                 } else if(strcmp((long_opts[option_index]).name,
"reject-dev") == 0) {
1534     #ifdef HAVE_LIBNET11
1535                     extern char *g_reject_dev;
1536                     extern uint16_t g_reject_dev_mtu;
1537                     g_reject_dev = optarg;
>>>     CID 1465223:  Null pointer dereferences  (FORWARD_NULL)
>>>     Passing null pointer "g_reject_dev" to "GetIfaceMTU", which dereferences it.
1538                     int mtu = GetIfaceMTU(g_reject_dev);
1539                     if (mtu > 0) {
1540                         g_reject_dev_mtu = (uint16_t)mtu;
1541                     }
1542     #else
1543                     SCLogError(SC_ERR_LIBNET_NOT_ENABLED,