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Bug #49617 Problem with references
Submitted: 2009-09-22 01:18 UTC Modified: 2013-02-18 00:34 UTC
From: mstf at mstf dot name dot tr Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 5.3, 6 (2009-09-22) OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-09-22 01:18 UTC] mstf at mstf dot name dot tr 
Description:
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Pointers problem.

Reproduce code:
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$a = array('a' => array('b' => 'c'));
$b = &$a;

$b = &$b['a'];
$b = &$b['b'];
$b = &$b['c'];

echo $b;

Expected result:
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NULL

Actual result:
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Apache "Send Error Report"
Apache error.log:
[Sat Aug 22 04:11:34 2009] [notice] Child 3408: Child process is running
[Sat Aug 22 04:11:34 2009] [notice] Child 3408: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sat Aug 22 04:11:34 2009] [notice] Child 3408: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Sat Aug 22 04:11:34 2009] [notice] Child 3408: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sat Aug 22 04:11:34 2009] [notice] Child 3408: Starting thread to listen on port 443.

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 [2009-09-22 09:30 UTC] sjoerd@php.net 
Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x00000000
0x00470df9 in ZEND_FETCH_DIM_W_SPEC_CV_CONST_HANDLER (execute_data=0xb68040) at zend_vm_execute.h:23568
23568			Z_DELREF_PP(EX_T(opline->result.u.var).var.ptr_ptr);
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00470df9 in ZEND_FETCH_DIM_W_SPEC_CV_CONST_HANDLER (execute_data=0xb68040) at zend_vm_execute.h:23568
#1  0x003ec80e in execute (op_array=0xa109f0) at zend_vm_execute.h:104
#2  0x003bd57a in zend_execute_scripts (type=8, retval=0x0, file_count=3) at /Users/sjoerd/Sources/php-src-5.3/Zend/zend.c:1188
#3  0x0034193d in php_execute_script (primary_file=0xbffff7fc) at /Users/sjoerd/Sources/php-src-5.3/main/main.c:2213
#4  0x0049650f in main (argc=4, argv=0xbffff8e8) at /Users/sjoerd/Sources/php-src-5.3/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1190
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 [2009-09-22 09:45 UTC] jani@php.net 
# build/php_5_2/sapi/cli/php -n t.php 

Fatal error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets nor overloaded objects in /home/jani/src/t.php on line 8

# build/php_5_3/sapi/cli/php -n t.php 
Segmentation fault

# build/php_6/sapi/cli/php -n t.php 
Segmentation fault
 [2010-05-19 15:46 UTC] mike@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Feedback
 [2010-05-19 15:46 UTC] mike@php.net 
Please try using this snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.3-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/
 [2013-02-18 00:34 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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