[fpc-pascal] Bug 37080 -- StrToHostAddr accepts all Pascal number notations

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 16 May 2020, Jonas Maebe wrote:

> On 15/05/2020 12:39, Noel Duffy via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> While doing some work on bug 37060, the refactoring of StrToHostAddr and
>> StrToHostAddr6 in the sockets
>> unit,(https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37060), I found that
>> StrToHostAddr is doing no validation at all on input address characters
>> before calling the function Val, so any Pascal notation that Val
>> accepts, such as 0x and $ for hexadecimal, % for binary, & for octal,
>> and mathematical signs are all accepted in ipv4 octets.
>
> I added a note to https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37013 about
> the fact that this test program fails if range checking is enabled (I
> don't know if the range error is in StrToHostAddr6 or in the test
> program itself).

I will check. 
I never use range checking, so that could have easily escaped me.

Michael.