From 9545eab4c8e6bf5ba17129eae78fb4bed31f5915 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philippe Antoine <pantoine@oisf.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:51:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] conf/output: friendly error message on bad configuration

Ticket: 7611

Instead of segfault

output.types expects a sequence of one-key mappings, instead
of directly a mapping
---
 src/runmodes.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/runmodes.c b/src/runmodes.c
index 800365f8e5..05c5e925ef 100644
--- a/src/runmodes.c
+++ b/src/runmodes.c
@@ -669,6 +669,9 @@ static void RunModeInitializeEveOutput(
     if (types == NULL) {
         return;
     }
+    if (!SCConfNodeIsSequence(types)) {
+        FatalError("output types should be a sequence");
+    }
 
     SCConfNode *type = NULL;
     TAILQ_FOREACH(type, &types->head, next) {
-- 
2.47.2