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Bug #21523 number_format causes call to emalloc for a negative amount of memory
Submitted: 2003-01-08 13:05 UTC Modified: 2003-01-09 09:48 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: cteubner at ncw-av dot com Assigned: wez (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: Windows 2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-01-08 13:05 UTC] cteubner at ncw-av dot com 
When the following line is run:

echo number_format(2, 2678);

The following error appears in the Apache error log:

FATAL:  emalloc():  Unable to allocate -1112 bytes

-259 and -123 have also appeared.
Clearly I accidentally used number_format in the reverse
direction that I meant to.  However, it seems like whatever is requesting memory for number_format is experiencing integer overflow.  That doesn't seem right.

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 [2003-01-09 06:36 UTC] wez@php.net 
sprintf under win32 can crash when the format width is too large.
Changing the emalloc + sprintf to spprintf highlights a problem in our spprintf implementation; it only returns a string of 80 chars.
This length causes the reslen calculation to produce a negative number and thus emalloc to fail.
 [2003-01-09 09:48 UTC] wez@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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 [2004-07-19 17:05 UTC] edreddy at gmail dot com 
when I used the function number_format(-2000, 2768) in php script and invoke that script using cli php (in version 5.3.8), php interpreter is getting into infinite loop of modf() and memmov() functions. It is working fine if I use the the second argument of number_format() function is less than 305. Platform  is RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server3.0
 
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