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-rw-r--r-- | libbb/process_escape_sequence.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/process_escape_sequence.c b/libbb/process_escape_sequence.c index 59d0d3ea8..11adbfcea 100644 --- a/libbb/process_escape_sequence.c +++ b/libbb/process_escape_sequence.c @@ -41,8 +41,16 @@ char FAST_FUNC bb_process_escape_sequence(const char **ptr) unsigned d = (unsigned char)(*q) - '0'; #else unsigned d = (unsigned char)_tolower(*q) - '0'; - if (d >= 10) - d += ('0' - 'a' + 10); + if (d >= 10) { + //d += ('0' - 'a' + 10); + /* The above would maps 'A'-'F' and 'a'-'f' to 10-15, + * however, some chars like '@' would map to 9 < base. + * Do not allow that, map invalid chars to N > base: + */ + d += ('0' - 'a'); + if ((int)d >= 0) + d += 10; + } #endif if (d >= base) { if (WANT_HEX_ESCAPES && base == 16) { |