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Bug #22301 htmlspecialchars crashes Apache
Submitted: 2003-02-19 11:36 UTC Modified: 2003-02-25 12:51 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: peter at alcor dot concordia dot ca Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: Tru64 Unix 5.1A
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-02-19 11:36 UTC] peter at alcor dot concordia dot ca 
This code crashes Apache on Tru64 Unix version 5.1A: 
 
<?php 
 
echo htmlspecialchars("That crashes Apache", ENT_QUOTES, 
"ISO-8859-1"); 
 
?> 
 
(dbx) run -X -f /pubmail/apache/conf/httpd.conf 
Unaligned access pid=148971 <httpd> va=0x14009ff7c 
pc=0x1200f6c08 ra=0x120111e90 inst=0xb4290000 
Unaligned access pid=148971 <httpd> va=0x14009ff7c 
pc=0x1200f6c08 ra=0x120111e90 inst=0xb4290000 
Unaligned access pid=148971 <httpd> va=0x11fff965c 
pc=0x1201164c0 ra=0x120116e8c inst=0xb42d0000 
signal Segmentation fault at   [get_next_char:6 
+0xfdc,0x12018a7ec] 
(dbx) 
 
I suspect it's 64-bit cleanness-related.

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 [2003-02-19 15:29 UTC] peter at alcor dot concordia dot ca 
If htmlspecialchars called with three parameters, 
zend_parse_parameters (inside php_html_entities function) 
doesn't properly initialize str pointer.
 [2003-02-23 23:21 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
Could you provide us a backtrace so we can have a better insight into this issue?

If you are unsure how to generate a backtrace, see
http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php

Thanks for your cooperation.
 [2003-02-25 12:04 UTC] peter at alcor dot concordia dot ca 
Surprisingly this fixes the problem:

--- html.c.original     2002-12-12 09:52:09.000000000 -0500
+++ html.c      2003-02-25 13:01:05.000000000 -0500
@@ -827,7 +827,8 @@
 {
        char *str, *hint_charset = NULL;
        int str_len, hint_charset_len = 0;
-       int len, quote_style = ENT_COMPAT;
+       int len; 
+       long quote_style = ENT_COMPAT;
        char *replaced;
 
        if (zend_parse_parameters(ZEND_NUM_ARGS() TSRMLS_CC, "s|ls", &str, &str_len,
 [2003-02-25 12:08 UTC] peter at alcor dot concordia dot ca 
the previous diff is for ext/standard/html.c, just in case
 [2003-02-25 12:51 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

In case this was a PHP problem, snapshots of the sources are packaged
every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can
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In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at
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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

The fix will be in 4.3.2
 
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