From fb7f162f61522127ca72adffd6802797b136a99a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniil Baturin <daniil@baturin.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:18:15 +0000
Subject: vyos.util: T4933: informative error for bad colon-separated lines in
 vyos.util.colon_separated_to_dict

---
 python/vyos/util.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/vyos/util.py b/python/vyos/util.py
index 6a828c0ac..110da3be5 100644
--- a/python/vyos/util.py
+++ b/python/vyos/util.py
@@ -348,9 +348,11 @@ def colon_separated_to_dict(data_string, uniquekeys=False):
         l = l.strip()
         if l:
             match = re.match(key_value_re, l)
-            if match:
+            if match and (len(match.groups()) == 2):
                 key = match.groups()[0].strip()
                 value = match.groups()[1].strip()
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"""Line "{l}" could not be parsed a colon-separated pair """, l)
             if key in data.keys():
                 if uniquekeys:
                     raise ValueError("Data string has duplicate keys: {0}".format(key))
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