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Bug #32862 session_register() causes Segmentation fault
Submitted: 2005-04-28 02:22 UTC Modified: 2005-05-01 00:14 UTC
From: svenl at haberer-online dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Session related
PHP Version: 4.3.11 OS: SUSE Linux 9.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2005-04-28 02:22 UTC] svenl at haberer-online dot de
Description:
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Hi,

when calling session_register() using php 4.3.11 and apache 2.0.50, I get an Seg-Fault.

When using $_SESSION, it works fine

Using php 4.3.10 and exactly the same configuration, it worked fine.

my config looks as follows:
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/php --mandir=/usr/share/man --bindir=/usr/bin --libdir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --sysconfdir=/etc --with-_lib=lib --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-exec-dir=/usr/lib/php/bin --disable-debug --enable-inline-optimization --enable-memory-limit --enable-magic-quotes --enable-safe-mode --enable-sigchild --disable-ctype --disable-session --without-mysql --disable-cli --without-pear --with-openssl --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2-prefork i586-suse-linux --with-unixODBC=/usr/lib/unixODBC  

php-ini:
register_globals = On


Reproduce code:
---------------
Script 1: crashes

<?
	$barney = "A big purple dinosaur.";
	session_register("barney");
        echo "date=".date("H:i:s",time());
?>

Script 2: works

<?
	$_SESSION["barney"] = "A big purple dinosaur.";
        echo "date=".date("H:i:s",time());
?>

Expected result:
----------------
both times I expect the time to be displayed

Actual result:
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With the first script the browser shows nothing (FireFox) or complains that the server closed the connection (Konqueror). 

Also apache adds the following warning to the error_log:
[date] [notice] child pid 30727 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

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The second script shows the time as expected

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 [2005-04-28 02:32 UTC] svenl at haberer-online dot de
Actually the same problem exists if 
register_globals = Off
 [2005-04-28 08:28 UTC] sniper@php.net
It can hardly work if you have '--disable-session' in your configure line. 
 [2005-04-30 23:13 UTC] svenl at haberer-online dot de
Hi Sniper, 
 
thanX for your quick reply...  
 
Sorry about not mentioning this earlier, but my 
session-support is inside an extension... 
 
Thus using exactly the same configure command for 4.3.10, 
sessions work fine (with register_globals = On, obviously). 
 
Perhaps the output of php_info helps: 
www.haberer-online.de/php/php4_3_10_info.htm 
www.haberer-online.de/php/php4_3_11_info.htm 
 
These are the two programs I use for testing: 
 
/// snip : session_test.php // 
<? 
	$barney = "A big purple dinosaur."; 
	session_register("barney"); 
	echo "date=".date("H:i:s",time()); 
?> 
<br><a href="session_test2.php">Next</a> 
//// end session_test.php // 
 
/// snip : session_test2.php // 
<? 
	session_register("barney"); 
	echo $barney."<br>"; 
	echo "date=".date("H:i:s",time()); 
?> 
//// end session_test2.php // 
 
with version 4.3.10, no errors get reported and the value 
set in the first script is reported in the second script... 
 
With v 4.3.11 I get the mentioned error messages. 
 
BTW, the only things I did was  
configure 
make 
make install  
- the extensions were not touched. Might there be some 
incompatibility ? 
 
The content of my extension dir looks like: 
ikarus: # pwd 
/usr/lib/php/extensions 
ikarus: # ll 
total 320 
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   224 Mar 20 23:00 . 
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root   160 Mar 20 23:39 .. 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 15426 Oct  5  2004 bz2.so 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 36096 Oct  5  2004 curl.so 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 43584 Oct  5  2004 ftp.so 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 93311 Oct  5  2004 gd.so 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 49578 Oct  5  2004 mysql.so 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 52726 Oct  5  2004 session.so 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 28486 Oct  5  2004 zlib.so 
 
ThanX again for your assistance - hope its not a stupid 
mistake from my side... 
 
Sven
 [2005-04-30 23:27 UTC] tony2001@php.net
>Might there be some incompatibility ? 

Yes, of course.
Where did you get that extensions compiled with one PHP version will work with another one?
 [2005-05-01 00:14 UTC] svenl at haberer-online dot de
Hi Tony,

was just assuming these would work through minor revisons, as all my programs run fine when upgrading from original-suse PHP to my own re-compile of php 4.3.10 (to enable ODBC-support)... 
The extensions are original as from SUSE 9.2 Pro.

And when upgrading to 4.3.11, I noted that session support was broken - assuming there would be a problem in this php version...

Now I checked all extensions (using the demo-pograms from php-doc):

- "bz2" causes a seg-fault for both 4.3.10+11
- "curl" works for both 4.3.10+11
- "ftp" works for both 4.3.10+11
- "gd" works for both 4.3.10+11
- "mysql" works for both 4.3.10+11
- "session" causes a seg-fault for 4.3.11 only
- "zlib" works for both 4.3.10+11

Thus I if I understand you you correctly, I will have to re-compile all extensions for every upgrade in version ?

ThanX,
Sven
 
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