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Bug #10279 recursive loop problem
Submitted: 2001-04-11 01:39 UTC Modified: 2001-04-11 02:16 UTC
From: nf at labyrinth dot net dot au Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Reproducible Crash
PHP Version: 4.0.4 OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-04-11 01:39 UTC] nf at labyrinth dot net dot au 
--- begin test.php ---
<?

$test = include("test.php");

?>
--- end test.php ---

This brought my whole server to it's knees. It basically ate all the resources it could find and filled up all the swap space until the kernel went "erk".

I haven't done much research but I'm aware that there are ways of detecting this kind of script.

Maybe this isn't really a bug, but it's something worth thinking about (or at least documenting).

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 [2001-04-11 02:16 UTC] derick@php.net 
This is not a bug, we have include_once() and require_once() for this.
 
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