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Bug #22592 Cascading assignments to strings with curly braces broken
Submitted: 2003-03-07 11:40 UTC Modified: 2003-07-24 15:14 UTC
Votes:20
Avg. Score:4.4 ± 0.9
Reproduced:15 of 16 (93.8%)
Same Version:7 (46.7%)
Same OS:8 (53.3%)
From: matteo at beccati dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.0.0b2-dev OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-03-07 11:40 UTC] matteo at beccati dot com 
When using cascading assignments to strings and curly braces, to change characters within strings, only the last character is changed to the right value. Other characters become NUL (0x00).

<?
$wrong = $correct = 'abcdef';

$correct{1} = '*';
$correct{3} = '*';
$correct{5} = '*';

// This produces the 
$wrong{1} = $wrong{3} = $wrong{5} = '*';

echo $correct."\n".$wrong."\n\n";
echo urlencode($correct)."\n"."\n".urlencode($wrong)."\n";

?>


The resulting output is:

a*c*e*
ace*

a%2Ac%2Ae%2A
a%00c%00e%2A


I also tested it on a old PHP 4.2.0-dev, and it gives the same result.

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 [2003-03-07 12:13 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Happens also with 4.3.2-dev. (from today)
 [2003-03-10 13:35 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
Update version
 [2003-06-16 10:44 UTC] stas@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

Fixed in ZE2.
 [2003-06-17 10:51 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Also fixed in PHP 4.3.3-dev (latest STABLE snapshot..)
 [2003-07-17 17:11 UTC] helly@php.net 
Reopen since it leaks now
 [2003-07-18 07:48 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Doesn't leak in PHP 4.3.3RC2-dev. (only PHP 5)
 [2003-07-24 15:14 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Marcus, report the leak in separate bug report.
 [2009-09-21 13:32 UTC] svn@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of dmitry
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=288525
Log: Fixed tests/lang/bug22592.phpt
 
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