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Bug #21442 empty recipient for mail() function crashed Apache
Submitted: 2003-01-05 14:57 UTC Modified: 2003-01-07 05:21 UTC
From: john dot wong at q-surf dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: Windows NT4 Server
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-01-05 14:57 UTC] john dot wong at q-surf dot com 
A script like

<?php
mail("", "test", "test");
?>

crashed Apache server (1.3.26).
PHP is installed as a Apache module.

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 [2003-01-05 15:52 UTC] tularis@php.net 
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions. 

Thank you for your interest in PHP.
 [2003-01-05 16:11 UTC] john dot wong at q-surf dot com 
I can certainly send email if a valid email address is specified. The problem is that passing an empty string as the first parameter of mail() in Windows version of PHP 4.3.0 and Apache crashed (Dr. Watson popped up and said address violation) is not normal. I expect some error messages are sent to the browser instead of crashing Apache.
 [2003-01-05 16:24 UTC] tularis@php.net 
it is sendmail that should handle this, not php...
 [2003-01-05 16:27 UTC] derick@php.net 
sendmail on windows? Let's keep it open until we have somebody who can reproduce this on windows, I just tried with the CLI and couldn't get it to crash (latest CVS), so you might want to try a snapshot from snaps.php.net (go for a development snapshot).
 [2003-01-05 16:31 UTC] john dot wong at q-surf dot com 
I am using Windows version of PHP and how can sendmail involved! I read from the doc. that PHP forward the mail to a SMTP server for Win version of PHP.
 [2003-01-07 04:11 UTC] edink@php.net 
I could reproduce this in 4.3.0 but it seems fixed after the release. Please try http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip
 [2003-01-07 04:51 UTC] edink@php.net 
Strike that. Can still reproduce it.
 [2003-01-07 05:21 UTC] edink@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

In case this was a PHP problem, snapshots of the sources are packaged
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