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Bug #39160 Indefinate recursing function causes segfault.
Submitted: 2006-10-15 03:11 UTC Modified: 2006-10-15 09:30 UTC
From: Lhunath at Pandora dot Be Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 5.1.6 OS: Gentoo Linux 2.6.18
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-10-15 03:11 UTC] Lhunath at Pandora dot Be
Description:
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When running the code found below, PHP seems to choke in recursions.

Naturally, the code itself is flawed; but this flaw should not be capable of segfaulting PHP. This can be seen as both a security and a stability flaw.

Reproduce code:
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<? 
 
function foo($bar) { 
     
    if(is_array($bar)) 
        foreach($bar as $k => $v) 
            print $k." => ".foo($v); 
    else 
        var_export($bar); 
} 
 
foo($GLOBALS); 
 
?>

Expected result:
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Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency?

Actual result:
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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1212631376 (LWP 5087)]
0xb76bd359 in zend_hash_quick_find () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb76bd359 in zend_hash_quick_find () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
#1  0xb76d4a90 in execute () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
#2  0xb76d35cd in execute () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
#3  0xb76d38ea in execute () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
#4  0xb76d35cd in execute () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
#5  0xb76d38ea in execute () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
#6  0xb76d35cd in execute () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
...

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 [2006-10-15 08:54 UTC] judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com
This issue is older than sins. and is considered the expected behaviuor.
 [2006-10-15 09:30 UTC] tony2001@php.net
Endless recursion is expected to cause problems.
 
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