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-rw-r--r--src/logging.cpp25
-rw-r--r--src/test/util_tests.cpp18
2 files changed, 42 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/logging.cpp b/src/logging.cpp
index 36cad6573a..3d3e2ef1e1 100644
--- a/src/logging.cpp
+++ b/src/logging.cpp
@@ -204,9 +204,32 @@ std::string BCLog::Logger::LogTimestampStr(const std::string &str)
return strStamped;
}
+namespace BCLog {
+ /** Belts and suspenders: make sure outgoing log messages don't contain
+ * potentially suspicious characters, such as terminal control codes.
+ *
+ * This escapes control characters except newline ('\n') in C syntax.
+ * It escapes instead of removes them to still allow for troubleshooting
+ * issues where they accidentally end up in strings.
+ */
+ std::string LogEscapeMessage(const std::string& str) {
+ std::string ret;
+ for (char ch_in : str) {
+ uint8_t ch = (uint8_t)ch_in;
+ if ((ch >= 32 || ch == '\n') && ch != '\x7f') {
+ ret += ch_in;
+ } else {
+ ret += strprintf("\\x%02x", ch);
+ }
+ }
+ return ret;
+ }
+}
+
void BCLog::Logger::LogPrintStr(const std::string &str)
{
- std::string strTimestamped = LogTimestampStr(str);
+ std::string strEscaped = LogEscapeMessage(str);
+ std::string strTimestamped = LogTimestampStr(strEscaped);
if (m_print_to_console) {
// print to console
diff --git a/src/test/util_tests.cpp b/src/test/util_tests.cpp
index 71b6ec7425..b32ef4b3ef 100644
--- a/src/test/util_tests.cpp
+++ b/src/test/util_tests.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
+/* defined in logging.cpp */
+namespace BCLog {
+ std::string LogEscapeMessage(const std::string& str);
+}
+
BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(util_tests, BasicTestingSetup)
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(util_criticalsection)
@@ -1256,4 +1261,17 @@ BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_Capitalize)
BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(Capitalize("\x00\xfe\xff"), "\x00\xfe\xff");
}
+BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_LogEscapeMessage)
+{
+ // ASCII and UTF-8 must pass through unaltered.
+ BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(BCLog::LogEscapeMessage("Valid log message貓"), "Valid log message貓");
+ // Newlines must pass through unaltered.
+ BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(BCLog::LogEscapeMessage("Message\n with newlines\n"), "Message\n with newlines\n");
+ // Other control characters are escaped in C syntax.
+ BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(BCLog::LogEscapeMessage("\x01\x7f Corrupted log message\x0d"), R"(\x01\x7f Corrupted log message\x0d)");
+ // Embedded NULL characters are escaped too.
+ const std::string NUL("O\x00O", 3);
+ BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(BCLog::LogEscapeMessage(NUL), R"(O\x00O)");
+}
+
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()