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Bug #14232 Crash of session_start() when client disables cookies and sends a form
Submitted: 2001-11-26 09:47 UTC Modified: 2002-03-06 02:49 UTC
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Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: adnev at podvodnik dot cz Assigned: yohgaki (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Session related
PHP Version: 4.0.6 OS: Win2000;Win98
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-11-26 09:47 UTC] adnev at podvodnik dot cz 
The function session_start() produces an access violation (drWatson reports the fault in strnatcmp_ex). It happens when the client has disabled cookies. The only setting that prevents the crash is session.use_trans_sid=0, but than sessions are not handled for client without cookies allowed.

I've tried a lot of combinations: to pass the PHPSESSID manually in a post/get variable (Input hidden ... =session_id();) but the problem remains the same.

For win98, bothe cgi and module versions do not work, under w2k, Apache cannot load the module version (says "cannot find"), so I don't have any idea if the module version could work.

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 [2001-12-06 14:46 UTC] adnev at podvodnik dot cz 
After additional testing, I discovered that the problems comes from the output buffering. If output_buffering=Off, the problem does not persist.
 [2001-12-06 21:21 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
Do you have zlib.output_compression=On or/and output_handler set? If so, what is your setting?
Do you have ob_end_finish()/ob_end_flush() in your script?

Does this happen with 4.1.0RC5?

http://www.php.net/~zeev/
 [2001-12-11 17:13 UTC] adnev at podvodnik dot cz 
I don't use the zlib library (zlib is not loaded at all). I don't use ob_end_finish() neither ob_end_flush(). I am not able to test 4.1.ORC5 if there is no win2000 binary included in the package.

Anyway I have no special libraries loaded and an almost basic configuration:

...
output_buffering = Off
implicit_flush = Off
allow_call_time_pass_reference = On
...
variables_order = "EGPCS"
register_globals = On
register_argc_argv = On
post_max_size = 8M
gpc_order = "GPC"
magic_quotes_gpc = On
magic_quotes_runtime = Off    
magic_quotes_sybase = Off
...
session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = /tmp
session.use_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = /
session.cookie_domain =
session.serialize_handler = php
session.gc_probability = 10
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.referer_check =
session.entropy_length = 0
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.cache_expire = 180
session.use_trans_sid = 1
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=nothing"
...

So if I sum up the problem: I've tested only:
- the cgi exe on win98 and win2000
- the module version on win2000

If session.use_trans_sid=1 and output_buffering=On then submiting forms (POST and GET methods) make the php.exe crash.

I've tested to swap several settings with NO effect e.g.:
- the EGPCS order
- session autostart
- ...
 [2002-02-03 01:33 UTC] s371117 at student dot uq dot edu dot au 
I have a similar error.

When I try to establish a session using php as an apache module under windows.  The apache server crashes instantly.

David

(my configuration is also the default).
 [2002-02-03 04:18 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
It should be fixed by my patch. Assigned to me for now.
 [2002-03-06 02:49 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.
 
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