From 02f6425db8d23fcb001afad0f15e45ffb57ff650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernardo Damele <bernardo.damele@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:24:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Work-around to avoid a TypeError traceback when reading a
 file content on MySQL/MSSQL

---
 plugins/generic/filesystem.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/generic/filesystem.py b/plugins/generic/filesystem.py
index 22ff224f2..f476c5cd5 100644
--- a/plugins/generic/filesystem.py
+++ b/plugins/generic/filesystem.py
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ class Filesystem:
     def __unhexString(self, hexStr):
         unhexStr = ""
 
+        if ( len(hexStr) % 2 ) != 0:
+            errMsg  = "for some reasons sqlmap retrieved an odd-length "
+            errMsg += "hexadecimal string which it is not able to convert "
+            errMsg += "to raw string"
+            logger.error(errMsg)
+
+            return hexStr
+
         if isinstance(hexStr, (list, tuple, set)):
             for chunk in hexStr:
                 if isinstance(chunk, (list, tuple, set)):