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Bug #35690 pack() allocates 1GB memory on float-values.
Submitted: 2005-12-15 20:51 UTC Modified: 2005-12-15 23:15 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.8
Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (66.7%)
Same OS:3 (100.0%)
From: hn at ondskap dot net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 5.1.1 OS: Linux, Windows Server 2003
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2005-12-15 20:51 UTC] hn at ondskap dot net
Description:
------------
Weird stuff going on with pack().

pack("A*", $float) makes the process go in to a endless loop (if you turn off memory limit), and kills the apache-thread (and probably server too if it's a slow one), trying to allocate ~1GB memory.

It's important to check all user-inputs to the pack()-function as it might hang the server for a while.

From the PHP-doc: "Also note that PHP internally stores integer values as signed values of a machine dependent size. If you give it an unsigned integer value too large to be stored that way it is converted to a float which often yields an undesired result."

(Including php-version 5.1.1)


Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
   echo pack( "A*", 1.0 );
?>
FATAL:  emalloc():  Unable to allocate 1072693249 bytes


<?php
   echo strlen( pack( "A*", (int) "heh" ));
   // Returns 3 all though we cast an integer to it?
?>

Expected result:
----------------
A fatal error on emalloc() that's unable to allocate an machine dependent amount of memory.


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 [2005-12-15 23:15 UTC] tony2001@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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