Re: [PATCH -resend 4/6] netfilter: Implement RFC 1123 for FTPconntrack

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Mon May 27 2013 - 08:20:47 EST


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:59:10PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The FTP conntrack code currently only accepts the following format for
> the 227 response for PASV:
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (148,100,81,40,31,161).
>
> It doesn't accept the following format from an obscure server:
> 227 Data transfer will passively listen to 67,218,99,134,50,144
>
> From RFC 1123:
> The format of the 227 reply to a PASV command is not
> well standardized. In particular, an FTP client cannot
> assume that the parentheses shown on page 40 of RFC-959
> will be present (and in fact, Figure 3 on page 43 omits
> them). Therefore, a User-FTP program that interprets
> the PASV reply must scan the reply for the first digit
> of the host and port numbers.

Applied, thanks.
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