ppp RADIUS accounting bug

[Barney Wolff]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:00:01AM +0500, Boris Kovalenko wrote:
> 
>    I found a serious bug in RADIUS accounting code. The problem is that
> OctetsIn and OctetsOut are defined as unsingned long long, but the 
> RADIUS supports only INT32 values, so, when
> we're doing rad_put_int(r->cx.rad, RAD_ACCT_OUTPUT_OCTETS, 
> stats->OctetsOut) in radius.c for OctetsOut (and OctetsIn also) we 
> loosing information if OctetsOut is greater then INT32_MAX. This should 
> be fixed.

Note that RADIUS integers are unsigned, so the limit is 2^32-1.
Also, RFC2869 defines attributes to hold the high-order parts.

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