fix: ignore case when evaluating exceptions #3442
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what
This PR fixes the wrong behavior: variable names are treated as case sensitive. Also it contains two new test cases for regression tests.
why
An issue opened (see below) where the reporter explained the problem: if an exclusion adds a collection member with lowercase, it won't have any effect during the rule evaluation.
The issue mentions only the
REQUEST_HEADERS
collection, but that's true for all targets.mod_security2 Apache module uses
strncasecmp()
in all cases, not justREQUEST_HEADERS
.additional notes
I didn't want to mix C and C++ functions, this is why I ignored
strncasecmp()
. I also wanted to avoid copying strings and create new functions to comparing strings, so the only solution seemed to be to usestd::equal()
with a lambda function.references
#3441