binascii.Error: Odd-length string

[Jerry Onthoa]

I have roughly 10k - 16k rules. All of sudden when I try to dump the rules with the following command I recieve the following error:

$ sudo ufw status numbered
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/ufw", line 147, in <module>
    res = ui.do_action(pr.action, "", "", pr.force)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ufw/frontend.py", line 663, in do_action
    res = self.get_status(False, True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ufw/frontend.py", line 260, in get_status
    out = self.backend.get_status(verbose, show_count)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ufw/backend_iptables.py", line 419, in get_status
    comment_str = " # %s" % r.get_comment()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ufw/common.py", line 372, in get_comment
    return ufw.util.hex_decode(self.comment)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ufw/util.py", line 1078, in hex_decode
    return binascii.unhexlify(h).decode('utf-8')
binascii.Error: Odd-length string
$

My Version:

$ ufw version
ufw 0.36
Copyright 2008-2015 Canonical Ltd.

Running Ubuntu bionic 18.04 LTS

Thanks,

Jerry

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Sorry that I only just saw this now. Are you still seeing this problem?

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