[Logcheck-devel] Bug#617232: logcheck: ignore regexes match ipv4 addresses only, causing false positives with ipv6 addresses.

[Benjamin M. A'Lee]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.3.13
Severity: normal


Various files under ignore.d.* use "[0-9.]{7,15}" to match an IPv4
address, e.g., a connection to rsyncd. However, this does not match
IPv6 addresses, causing spurious reports.

A better regexp might be something like: ([0-9.]{7,15}|[0-9a-f:]{2,39})

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.22-kvm-i386-20100921 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon
ii  lockfile-progs                0.1.15     Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail                       1.3.13     Print log file lines that have not
ii  mime-construct                1.11       construct/send MIME messages from 
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.7.1-1    High-performance mail transport ag
ii  rsyslog [system-log-daemon]   4.6.4-2    enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.3.13     database of system log rules for t

Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
ii  syslog-summary                1.14-2     summarize the contents of a syslog

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf'
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles'

-- no debconf information