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Package is "fping" Thu Sep 25 18:45:17 2025 rev:41 rq:1307026 version:5.4 Changes: -------- --- /work/SRC/openSUSE:Factory/fping/fping.changes 2025-01-07 20:55:29.786067293 +0100 +++ /work/SRC/openSUSE:Factory/.fping.new.11973/fping.changes 2025-09-25 18:47:01.330507739 +0200 @@ -1,0 +2,8 @@ +Thu Sep 25 05:23:24 UTC 2025 - Marius Grossu <[email protected]> + +- Update to 5.4: + * Memory allocation safety checks for event storage (thanks David.A for the bug report) + * Fix off-by-one boundary check in seqmap code (thanks David.A for the bug report) + * The minimum value for the period (-p flag) is now 0.001 milliseconds + +------------------------------------------------------------------- Old: ---- fping-5.3.tar.gz fping-5.3.tar.gz.asc New: ---- fping-5.4.tar.gz fping-5.4.tar.gz.asc ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Other differences: ------------------ ++++++ fping.spec ++++++ --- /var/tmp/diff_new_pack.BP5a9w/_old 2025-09-25 18:47:02.058538211 +0200 +++ /var/tmp/diff_new_pack.BP5a9w/_new 2025-09-25 18:47:02.062538378 +0200 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # # spec file for package fping # -# Copyright (c) 2025 SUSE LLC +# Copyright (c) 2025 SUSE LLC and contributors # # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Name: fping -Version: 5.3 +Version: 5.4 Release: 0 Summary: A program to ping multiple hosts License: MIT ++++++ fping-5.3.tar.gz -> fping-5.4.tar.gz ++++++ diff -urN '--exclude=CVS' '--exclude=.cvsignore' '--exclude=.svn' '--exclude=.svnignore' old/fping-5.3/CHANGELOG.md new/fping-5.4/CHANGELOG.md --- old/fping-5.3/CHANGELOG.md 2025-01-02 18:10:11.000000000 +0100 +++ new/fping-5.4/CHANGELOG.md 2025-08-19 14:19:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ -fping 5.3 (2025-01-02) +fping 5.4 (2025-08-19) ====================== +## Bugfixes + +- Memory allocation safety checks for event storage (thanks David.A for bug report) +- Fix off-by-one boundary check in seqmap code (thanks David.A for bug report) +- The minimum value for the period (-p flag) is now 0.001 milliseconds, + since it probably never makes sense to use a smaller value, and to avoid doing + a very large memory allocation for event storage. + +fping 5.3 (2025-01-02) +====================== ## New features diff -urN '--exclude=CVS' '--exclude=.cvsignore' '--exclude=.svn' '--exclude=.svnignore' old/fping-5.3/ci/test-03-forbidden.pl new/fping-5.4/ci/test-03-forbidden.pl --- old/fping-5.3/ci/test-03-forbidden.pl 2025-01-02 18:10:11.000000000 +0100 +++ new/fping-5.4/ci/test-03-forbidden.pl 2025-08-19 14:19:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ $cmd1->exit_is_num(1); $cmd1->stdout_is_eq(""); $cmd1->stderr_is_eq(<<END); -fping: these options are too risky for mere mortals. -fping: You need -i >= 1 and -p >= 10 +fping: -i must be >= 1 END # fping -p 9 @@ -16,8 +15,7 @@ $cmd2->exit_is_num(1); $cmd2->stdout_is_eq(""); $cmd2->stderr_is_eq(<<END); -fping: these options are too risky for mere mortals. -fping: You need -i >= 1 and -p >= 10 +fping: -p must be >= 10 END # fping -H 300 diff -urN '--exclude=CVS' '--exclude=.cvsignore' '--exclude=.svn' '--exclude=.svnignore' old/fping-5.3/configure new/fping-5.4/configure --- old/fping-5.3/configure 2025-01-02 18:10:43.000000000 +0100 +++ new/fping-5.4/configure 2025-08-19 14:21:17.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #! /bin/sh # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles. -# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 for fping 5.3. +# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 for fping 5.4. # # # Copyright (C) 1992-1996, 1998-2017, 2020-2021 Free Software Foundation, @@ -607,8 +607,8 @@ # Identity of this package. PACKAGE_NAME='fping' PACKAGE_TARNAME='fping' -PACKAGE_VERSION='5.3' -PACKAGE_STRING='fping 5.3' +PACKAGE_VERSION='5.4' +PACKAGE_STRING='fping 5.4' PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='' PACKAGE_URL='' @@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@ # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing. # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh. cat <<_ACEOF -\`configure' configures fping 5.3 to adapt to many kinds of systems. +\`configure' configures fping 5.4 to adapt to many kinds of systems. Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]... @@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then case $ac_init_help in - short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of fping 5.3:";; + short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of fping 5.4:";; esac cat <<\_ACEOF @@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status if $ac_init_version; then cat <<\_ACEOF -fping configure 5.3 +fping configure 5.4 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@ This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. -It was created by fping $as_me 5.3, which was +It was created by fping $as_me 5.4, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71. Invocation command line was $ $0$ac_configure_args_raw @@ -4715,7 +4715,7 @@ # Define the identity of the package. PACKAGE='fping' - VERSION='5.3' + VERSION='5.4' printf "%s\n" "#define PACKAGE \"$PACKAGE\"" >>confdefs.h @@ -6601,7 +6601,7 @@ # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their # values after options handling. ac_log=" -This file was extended by fping $as_me 5.3, which was +This file was extended by fping $as_me 5.4, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71. Invocation command line was CONFIG_FILES = $CONFIG_FILES @@ -6669,7 +6669,7 @@ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1 ac_cs_config='$ac_cs_config_escaped' ac_cs_version="\\ -fping config.status 5.3 +fping config.status 5.4 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71, with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\" diff -urN '--exclude=CVS' '--exclude=.cvsignore' '--exclude=.svn' '--exclude=.svnignore' old/fping-5.3/configure.ac new/fping-5.4/configure.ac --- old/fping-5.3/configure.ac 2025-01-02 18:10:11.000000000 +0100 +++ new/fping-5.4/configure.ac 2025-08-19 14:19:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl Minimum Autoconf version required. 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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh -.SH "NAME" +.SH NAME fping \- send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts -.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.SH SYNOPSIS .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" \&\fBfping\fR [ \fIoptions\fR ] [ \fIsystems...\fR ] -.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.SH DESCRIPTION .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" \&\fBfping\fR is a program like \fBping\fR which uses the Internet Control Message -Protocol (\s-1ICMP\s0) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. +Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. \&\fBfping\fR differs from \fBping\fR in that you can specify any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of targets to ping. Instead of sending to one target until it times out or replies, \fBfping\fR will @@ -157,8 +79,8 @@ sending a specified number of pings to a target, or looping indefinitely (as in \&\fBping\fR ). Unlike \fBping\fR, \fBfping\fR is meant to be used in scripts, so its output is designed to be easy to parse. Current statistics can be obtained without -termination of process with signal \s-1SIGQUIT\s0 (^\e from the keyboard on most systems). -.SH "OPTIONS" +termination of process with signal SIGQUIT (^\e from the keyboard on most systems). +.SH OPTIONS .IX Header "OPTIONS" .IP "\fB\-4\fR, \fB\-\-ipv4\fR" 5 .IX Item "-4, --ipv4" @@ -171,15 +93,15 @@ Show systems that are alive. (Options \fB\-c\fR and \fB\-C\fR override \fB\-a\fR.) .IP "\fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-addr\fR" 5 .IX Item "-A, --addr" -Display targets by address rather than \s-1DNS\s0 name. Combined with \-d, the output +Display targets by address rather than DNS name. Combined with \-d, the output will be both the ip and (if available) the hostname. -.IP "\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-size\fR=\fI\s-1BYTES\s0\fR" 5 +.IP "\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-size\fR=\fIBYTES\fR" 5 .IX Item "-b, --size=BYTES" Number of bytes of ping data to send. The minimum size (normally 12) allows room for the data that \fBfping\fR needs to do its work (sequence number, -timestamp). The reported received data size includes the \s-1IP\s0 header (normally -20 bytes) and \s-1ICMP\s0 header (8 bytes), so the minimum total size is 40 bytes. -Default is 56, as in \fBping\fR. Maximum is the theoretical maximum \s-1IP\s0 datagram +timestamp). The reported received data size includes the IP header (normally +20 bytes) and ICMP header (8 bytes), so the minimum total size is 40 bytes. +Default is 56, as in \fBping\fR. Maximum is the theoretical maximum IP datagram size (64K), though most systems limit this to a smaller, system-dependent number. Cannot be used together with \fB\-\-icmp\-timestamp\fR. .IP "\fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-backoff\fR=\fIN\fR" 5 @@ -209,18 +131,18 @@ shows the response time in milliseconds for each of the five requests, with the \&\f(CW\*(C`\-\*(C'\fR indicating that no response was received to the fourth request. This option overrides \fB\-a\fR or \fB\-u\fR. -.IP "\fB\-\-check\-source\fR" 5 +.IP \fB\-\-check\-source\fR 5 .IX Item "--check-source" Discard Echo replies that are sourced from a different address than the target address. This avoids spurious reachability results on busy monitoring systems -where two \fBfping\fR instances with the same lower 16 bits of the process \s-1ID\s0 may +where two \fBfping\fR instances with the same lower 16 bits of the process ID may be running at the same time. .IP "\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-rdns\fR" 5 .IX Item "-d, --rdns" -Use \s-1DNS\s0 to lookup address of ping target. This allows you to give fping -a list of \s-1IP\s0 addresses as input and print hostnames in the output. This is similar +Use DNS to lookup address of ping target. This allows you to give fping +a list of IP addresses as input and print hostnames in the output. This is similar to option \fB\-n\fR/\fB\-\-name\fR, but will force a reverse-DNS lookup even if you give -hostnames as target (\s-1NAME\-\s0>\s-1IP\-\s0>\s-1NAME\s0). +hostnames as target (NAME\->IP\->NAME). .IP "\fB\-D\fR, \fB\-\-timestamp\fR" 5 .IX Item "-D, --timestamp" Add Unix timestamps in front of output lines generated with in looping or counting @@ -230,11 +152,11 @@ .Sp Allow to change the timestamp format of the \fB\-D\fR option to the following format types. .Sp -\&\fIctime\fR = \*(L"%c\*(R" (Example: Mon Jun 10 07:50:00 2024) +\&\fIctime\fR = "%c" (Example: Mon Jun 10 07:50:00 2024) .Sp -\&\fIiso\fR = \*(L"%Y\-%m\-%dT%T%z\*(R" (Example: 2024\-06\-10T07:50:00+0200) +\&\fIiso\fR = "%Y\-%m\-%dT%T%z" (Example: 2024\-06\-10T07:50:00+0200) .Sp -\&\fIrfc3339\fR = \*(L"%Y\-%m\-%d \f(CW%H:\fR%M:%S\*(R" (Example: 2024\-06\-10 07:50:00) +\&\fIrfc3339\fR = "%Y\-%m\-%d \f(CW%H:\fR%M:%S" (Example: 2024\-06\-10 07:50:00) .IP "\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-elapsed\fR" 5 .IX Item "-e, --elapsed" Show elapsed (round-trip) time of packets. @@ -243,7 +165,7 @@ Read list of targets from a file. .IP "\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-generate\fR \fIaddr/mask\fR" 5 .IX Item "-g, --generate addr/mask" -Generate a target list from a supplied \s-1IP\s0 netmask, or a starting and ending \s-1IP.\s0 +Generate a target list from a supplied IP netmask, or a starting and ending IP. Specify the netmask or start/end in the targets portion of the command line. If a network with netmask is given, the network and broadcast addresses will be excluded. ex. To ping the network 192.168.1.0/24, the specified command line @@ -263,29 +185,29 @@ Print usage message. .IP "\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-ttl\fR=\fIN\fR" 5 .IX Item "-H, --ttl=N" -Set the \s-1IP TTL\s0 field (time to live hops). -.IP "\fB\-\-print\-ttl\fR" 5 +Set the IP TTL field (time to live hops). +.IP \fB\-\-print\-ttl\fR 5 .IX Item "--print-ttl" -Displays the IPv4 \s-1TTL\s0 value from the \s-1IP\s0 Header in the output. -If \fBfping\fR cannot read the \s-1TTL\s0 value, \*(L"(\s-1TTL\s0 unknown)\*(R" is returned. +Displays the IPv4 TTL value from the IP Header in the output. +If \fBfping\fR cannot read the TTL value, "(TTL unknown)" is returned. IPv4 only, requires root privileges or cap_net_raw. -.IP "\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-interval\fR=\fI\s-1MSEC\s0\fR" 5 +.IP "\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-interval\fR=\fIMSEC\fR" 5 .IX Item "-i, --interval=MSEC" The minimum amount of time (in milliseconds) between sending a ping packet to any target (default is 10, minimum is 1). -.IP "\fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-iface\fR=\fI\s-1IFACE\s0\fR" 5 +.IP "\fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-iface\fR=\fIIFACE\fR" 5 .IX Item "-I, --iface=IFACE" -Set the interface (requires \s-1SO_BINDTODEVICE\s0 support). -.IP "\fB\-\-icmp\-timestamp\fR" 5 +Set the interface (requires SO_BINDTODEVICE support). +.IP \fB\-\-icmp\-timestamp\fR 5 .IX Item "--icmp-timestamp" -Send \s-1ICMP\s0 timestamp requests (\s-1ICMP\s0 type 13) instead of \s-1ICMP\s0 Echo requests. -Print \s-1ICMP\s0 timestamps for originate, receive, and transmit, together with +Send ICMP timestamp requests (ICMP type 13) instead of ICMP Echo requests. +Print ICMP timestamps for originate, receive, and transmit, together with the local receive time in the same format, in addition to normal output. -Cannot be used together with \fB\-b\fR because \s-1ICMP\s0 timestamp messages have a fixed size. +Cannot be used together with \fB\-b\fR because ICMP timestamp messages have a fixed size. IPv4 only, requires root privileges or cap_net_raw. -.IP "\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-fwmark\fR=\fI\s-1FWMARK\s0\fR" 5 +.IP "\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-fwmark\fR=\fIFWMARK\fR" 5 .IX Item "-k, --fwmark=FWMARK" -Set \s-1FWMARK\s0 on ping packets for policy-based routing. Requires Linux kernel +Set FWMARK on ping packets for policy-based routing. Requires Linux kernel 2.6.25<=, and root privileges or cap_net_admin. .IP "\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-loop\fR" 5 .IX Item "-l, --loop" @@ -293,31 +215,31 @@ Ctrl-C; statistics about responses for each target are then displayed. .IP "\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-all\fR" 5 .IX Item "-m, --all" -Send pings to each of a target host's multiple \s-1IP\s0 addresses (use of option '\-A' +Send pings to each of a target host's multiple IP addresses (use of option '\-A' is recommended). .IP "\fB\-M\fR, \fB\-\-dontfrag\fR" 5 .IX Item "-M, --dontfrag" -Set the \*(L"Don't Fragment\*(R" bit in the \s-1IP\s0 header (used to determine/test the \s-1MTU\s0). +Set the "Don't Fragment" bit in the IP header (used to determine/test the MTU). .IP "\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-name\fR" 5 .IX Item "-n, --name" -If targets are specified as \s-1IP\s0 addresses, do a reverse-DNS lookup on them +If targets are specified as IP addresses, do a reverse-DNS lookup on them to print hostnames in the output. .IP "\fB\-N\fR, \fB\-\-netdata\fR" 5 .IX Item "-N, --netdata" Format output for netdata (\-l \-Q are required). See: <https://netdata.cloud/> .IP "\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-outage\fR" 5 .IX Item "-o, --outage" -Calculate \*(L"outage time\*(R" based on the number of lost pings and the interval used (useful for network convergence tests). +Calculate "outage time" based on the number of lost pings and the interval used (useful for network convergence tests). .IP "\fB\-O\fR, \fB\-\-tos\fR=\fIN\fR" 5 .IX Item "-O, --tos=N" -Set the typ of service flag (\s-1TOS\s0). \fIN\fR can be either decimal or hexadecimal +Set the typ of service flag (TOS). \fIN\fR can be either decimal or hexadecimal (0xh) format. -.IP "\fB\-\-print\-tos\fR" 5 +.IP \fB\-\-print\-tos\fR 5 .IX Item "--print-tos" -Displays the \s-1TOS\s0 value in the output. If \fBfping\fR cannot read the \s-1TOS\s0 value, -\&\*(L"(\s-1TOS\s0 unknown)\*(R" is returned. +Displays the TOS value in the output. If \fBfping\fR cannot read the TOS value, +"(TOS unknown)" is returned. IPv4 only, requires root privileges or cap_net_raw. -.IP "\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-period\fR=\fI\s-1MSEC\s0\fR" 5 +.IP "\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-period\fR=\fIMSEC\fR" 5 .IX Item "-p, --period=MSEC" In looping or counting modes (\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-c\fR, or \fB\-C\fR), this parameter sets the time in milliseconds that \fBfping\fR waits between successive packets to @@ -325,10 +247,10 @@ .IP "\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR" 5 .IX Item "-q, --quiet" Quiet. Don't show per-probe results, but only the final summary. Also don't -show \s-1ICMP\s0 error messages. +show ICMP error messages. .IP "\fB\-Q\fR, \fB\-\-squiet\fR=\fISECS[,cumulative]\fR" 5 .IX Item "-Q, --squiet=SECS[,cumulative]" -Like \fB\-q\fR, but additionally show interval summary results every \fI\s-1SECS\s0\fR +Like \fB\-q\fR, but additionally show interval summary results every \fISECS\fR seconds. With \fIcumulative\fR, show summary results since start instead of for the last interval, unless option \fB\-N\fR is used, too. .IP "\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-retry\fR=\fIN\fR" 5 @@ -345,7 +267,7 @@ .IP "\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-src\fR=\fIaddr\fR" 5 .IX Item "-S, --src=addr" Set source address. -.IP "\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-timeout\fR=\fI\s-1MSEC\s0\fR" 5 +.IP "\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-timeout\fR=\fIMSEC\fR" 5 .IX Item "-t, --timeout=MSEC" Initial target timeout in milliseconds. In the default, non-loop mode, the default timeout is 500ms, and it represents the amount of time that \fBfping\fR @@ -353,9 +275,9 @@ by the backoff factor specified with \fB\-B\fR. .Sp In loop/count mode, the default timeout is automatically adjusted to match -the \*(L"period\*(R" value (but not more than 2000ms). You can still adjust the timeout +the "period" value (but not more than 2000ms). You can still adjust the timeout value with this option, if you wish to, but note that setting a value larger -than \*(L"period\*(R" produces inconsistent results, because the timeout value can +than "period" produces inconsistent results, because the timeout value can be respected only for the last ping. .Sp Also note that any received replies that are larger than the timeout value, will @@ -377,33 +299,33 @@ .IX Item "-X, --fast-reachable=N" Given a list of hosts, this mode immediately exits true once N alive hosts have been found. -.SH "EXAMPLES" +.SH EXAMPLES .IX Header "EXAMPLES" Generate 20 pings to two hosts in ca. 1 second (i.e. one ping every 50 ms to -each host), and report every ping \s-1RTT\s0 at the end: +each host), and report every ping RTT at the end: .PP .Vb 1 \& $ fping \-\-quiet \-\-interval=1 \-\-vcount=20 \-\-period=50 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.2 .Ve -.SH "AUTHORS" +.SH AUTHORS .IX Header "AUTHORS" -.IP "\(bu" 4 -Roland J. Schemers \s-1III,\s0 Stanford University, concept and versions 1.x -.IP "\(bu" 4 -\&\s-1RL\s0 \*(L"Bob\*(R" Morgan, Stanford University, versions 2.x -.IP "\(bu" 4 +.IP \(bu 4 +Roland J. Schemers III, Stanford University, concept and versions 1.x +.IP \(bu 4 +RL "Bob" Morgan, Stanford University, versions 2.x +.IP \(bu 4 David Papp, versions 2.3x and up -.IP "\(bu" 4 +.IP \(bu 4 David Schweikert, versions 3.0 and up .PP \&\fBfping website: <http://www.fping.org>\fR -.SH "DIAGNOSTICS" +.SH DIAGNOSTICS .IX Header "DIAGNOSTICS" Exit status is 0 if all the hosts (or the number of hosts specified with \fB\-x\fR or \fB\-X\fR) are reachable, 1 if some (or too many with \fB\-x\fR or \fB\-X\fR) hosts -were unreachable, 2 if any \s-1IP\s0 addresses were not found, 3 for invalid command +were unreachable, 2 if any IP addresses were not found, 3 for invalid command line arguments, and 4 for a system call failure. -.SH "RESTRICTIONS" +.SH RESTRICTIONS .IX Header "RESTRICTIONS" The number of addresses that can be generated using the \f(CW\*(C`\-g\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`\-\-generate\*(C'\fR option is limited to 131070 (the number of host addresses in one 15\-bit IPv4 @@ -411,9 +333,9 @@ .PP If fping was configured with \f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-safe\-limits\*(C'\fR, the following values are not allowed for non-root users: -.IP "\(bu" 4 +.IP \(bu 4 \&\fB\-i\fR \fIn\fR, where \fIn\fR < 1 msec -.IP "\(bu" 4 +.IP \(bu 4 \&\fB\-p\fR \fIn\fR, where \fIn\fR < 10 msec .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" diff -urN '--exclude=CVS' '--exclude=.cvsignore' '--exclude=.svn' '--exclude=.svnignore' old/fping-5.3/src/fping.c new/fping-5.4/src/fping.c --- old/fping-5.3/src/fping.c 2025-01-02 18:10:11.000000000 +0100 +++ new/fping-5.4/src/fping.c 2025-08-19 14:19:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -147,13 +147,16 @@ /* ICMP Timestamp has a fixed payload size of 12 bytes */ #define ICMP_TIMESTAMP_DATA_SIZE 12 -/* maxima and minima */ #ifdef FPING_SAFE_LIMITS -#define MIN_INTERVAL 1 /* in millisec */ -#define MIN_PERHOST_INTERVAL 10 /* in millisec */ +#define MIN_INTERVAL_MS 1 /* in millisec */ +#define MIN_PERHOST_INTERVAL_MS 10 /* in millisec */ #else -#define MIN_INTERVAL 0 -#define MIN_PERHOST_INTERVAL 0 +#define MIN_INTERVAL_MS 0 +/* Set a very low limit for the per-host interval, even if safe limits are + * disabled, so that the memory allocation of the event storage is not + * unreasonably high. 0.001 ms would mean in theory at least 592 mbps of data + * sent to a single host, which probably doesn't make sense in any scenario. */ +#define MIN_PERHOST_INTERVAL_MS 0.001 #endif /* response time array flags */ @@ -962,15 +965,15 @@ exit(1); } -#ifdef FPING_SAFE_LIMITS - if ((interval < (int64_t)MIN_INTERVAL * 1000000 || perhost_interval < (int64_t)MIN_PERHOST_INTERVAL * 1000000) - && getuid()) { - fprintf(stderr, "%s: these options are too risky for mere mortals.\n", prog); - fprintf(stderr, "%s: You need -i >= %u and -p >= %u\n", - prog, MIN_INTERVAL, MIN_PERHOST_INTERVAL); + if (interval < (float)MIN_INTERVAL_MS * 1000000 && getuid()) { + fprintf(stderr, "%s: -i must be >= %g\n", prog, (float)MIN_INTERVAL_MS); + exit(1); + } + + if (perhost_interval < (float)MIN_PERHOST_INTERVAL_MS * 1000000 && getuid()) { + fprintf(stderr, "%s: -p must be >= %g\n", prog, (float)MIN_PERHOST_INTERVAL_MS); exit(1); } -#endif if (ping_data_size > MAX_PING_DATA) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: data size %u not valid, must not be larger than %u\n", @@ -2806,7 +2809,13 @@ /* allocate event storage */ p->event_storage_ping = (struct event *)calloc(event_storage_count, sizeof(struct event)); + if (!p->event_storage_ping) { + errno_crash_and_burn("can't allocate event_storage_ping"); + } p->event_storage_timeout = (struct event *)calloc(event_storage_count, sizeof(struct event)); + if (!p->event_storage_timeout) { + errno_crash_and_burn("can't allocate event_storage_timeout"); + } /* schedule first ping */ host_add_ping_event(p, 0, current_time_ns); diff -urN '--exclude=CVS' '--exclude=.cvsignore' '--exclude=.svn' '--exclude=.svnignore' old/fping-5.3/src/seqmap.c new/fping-5.4/src/seqmap.c --- old/fping-5.3/src/seqmap.c 2025-01-02 18:10:11.000000000 +0100 +++ new/fping-5.4/src/seqmap.c 2025-08-19 14:19:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ { SEQMAP_VALUE* value; - if (id > SEQMAP_MAXSEQ) { + if (id >= SEQMAP_MAXSEQ) { return NULL; }
