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Bug #47564 [PATCH] unpacking unsigned long 32bit bit endian returns wrong result
Submitted: 2009-03-04 16:43 UTC Modified: 2009-05-12 12:37 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 1.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (50.0%)
Same OS:1 (50.0%)
From: laacz at laacz dot lv Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 5.2.9 OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE (amd64)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-03-04 16:43 UTC] laacz at laacz dot lv 
Description:
------------
Unpacking unsigned long (32bit; always big endian; "N") on 64bit 
system returns 64bit signed int instead of 32bit.

You can do & 0xffffffff on unpacked value, and get desired result, 
but that's still a bug.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
list(,$command_id) =  unpack('N', chr(0x80) . chr(0x00) . chr(0x00) . chr(0x09));
echo hexdec(dechex($command_id)) . "\n0x" . dechex($command_id) . "\n";
?>



Expected result:
----------------
2147483657
0x80000009





Actual result:
--------------
1.8446744071562E+19
0xffffffff80000009

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 [2009-04-10 10:46 UTC] vivekanandan8 at yahoo dot com 
Hi,
   Generally the Zend engine holds any variable as  zval which holds the integer as long data type only. 

32 bit Platform: long         => 4 byte = 32 bit 
64 bit Platform: long         => 8 byte = 64 bit
64 bit Platform: unsigned int => 4 byte = 32 bit

Hence in the 64 bit platform, we have to convert from long to unsigned int only in 64 bit Platform.
Hence in php source  php5.3-200903301230/ext/standard/pack.c
In PHP_FUNCTION(unpack) place, add this convertion immediate
after  php_unpack function as folows. 

v |= php_unpack(&input[inputpos], 4, issigned, map);
if (sizeof(long) > 4) {	v = (unsigned int) v; }


I tested in both 32 & 64 bit platform ,it works fine , please close this Bug
Regards,
vivekanandan
 [2009-04-10 11:07 UTC] vivekanandan8 at yahoo dot com 
Hi,
    Regarding the bug fix, This is tested in Version PHP 5.3 and works fine,for any one needs full source code :   
http://www.gnudeveloper.com/software/php/pack.c

Regards,
vivekanandan.
 [2009-04-14 14:12 UTC] vivekanandan8 at yahoo dot com 
Hi,
   for signed long also work properly,please use code below. 

v |= php_unpack(&input[inputpos], 4, issigned, map);
if (sizeof(long) > 4) {
   if( type == 'l' ) {
      v = (signed int) v; 
   }else{ 
       v = (unsigned int) v;
   }
}

Full Source Code: 

http://www.gnudeveloper.com/software/php-5.3/pack.c


Regards,
vivekanandan.
 [2009-05-12 12:37 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
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