[mapserver-users] Mapserver 5.4 & SYMBOLSET

[Christy Nieman]

Hi,

It was addressing some potential security problems: 
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2009-March/060600.html

Christy

Guillaume Sueur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think what David meant was about getting an error when SYMBOLSET is
> not declared in the symbol file since 5.4.
>
> I ran into the same problem, and had to add SYMBOLSET ... END to my
> symbol files to have them running fine with MapServer 5.4.
>
> Is it something newly added, or just a long lasting requisite become
> mandatory ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Guillaume
>
> Daniel Morissette a écrit :
>   
>> Are you sure that the file you are editing is really the one used by
>> your mapfile? That's a common mistake... to verify that, try inserting
>> an invalid keyword in place of the SYMBOLSET keyword in your file and
>> verify that MapServer produces a parser error about it. If it doesn't
>> then it's probably not using the file you think it is.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> David Nugent wrote:
>> It starts (and ends) like this:
>>
>> SYMBOLSET
>>
>>   SYMBOL
>>         NAME    "point"
>>         TYPE    ELLIPSE
>>         POINTS
>>                 1 1
>>         END
>>         FILLED  TRUE
>>   END
>>
>>   SYMBOL
>>         NAME    "dashed"
>>         TYPE    ELLIPSE
>>         POINTS
>>                 1 1
>>         END
>>         FILLED  TRUE
>>         STYLE
>>                 8 6 8 6
>>         END
>>   END
>>
>> ...
>>
>> END
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>>
>> On 30/04/2009, at 1:13 PM, Steve Lime wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>>> Can you share your symbolset file? I've not had an issue with that
>>>>> change.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>>>> David Nugent <davidn at datalinktech.com.au> 04/29/09 9:54 PM >>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've recently upgraded to mapserver 5.4 and hit a problem with
>>>>> SYMBOLSET.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that a file containing symbols referenced from the .map file
>>>>> must now contain a SYMBOLSET keyword at the start (and presumably end
>>>>> with END?). I made this change, but the parser still complains with
>>>>> the message "First token must be SYMBOLSET".
>>>>>
>>>>> Not really wanting to waste time on debugging the lex code, I simply
>>>>> removed the check that emits this error from mapsymbol.c and all works
>>>>> as expected. Obviously there is a deeper problem, whether it be the
>>>>> logic in that statement (which appears to be correct as far as I can
>>>>> tell) or the lex parser itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm just wondering if anyone else had hit the same problem.
>>>>>           
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