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Bug #69243 Giving row break to get() makes php process eat 100% CPU until timeout.
Submitted: 2015-03-16 07:26 UTC Modified: 2020-08-11 14:31 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: henrik dot persson at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: memcached (PECL)
PHP Version: 5.5.22 OS: Linux - Debian Wheezy
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-03-16 07:26 UTC] henrik dot persson at gmail dot com 
Description:
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If supplying a row break \n in a key name for get()/getMulti() you will make the PHP thread use 100% CPU until the script times out.

Test script:
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<?php
$memcached = new Memcached();
$memcached->addServer('192.168.0.1', 11211);
$memcached->get('finelookingKey'."\n");
?>

OR

<?php
$memcached = new Memcached();
$memcached->addServer('192.168.0.1', 11211);

$memcached_keys = array(
	'finelookingKey'."\n"
);
$memcached->getMulti($memcached_keys);
?>

Expected result:
----------------
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in Unknown on line 0

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 [2015-03-16 18:12 UTC] samantha at tembies dot com 
According to the memcached protocol spec (https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/doc/protocol.txt#L41), valid keys are strings not containing whitespace or control characters.

On a quick scan through the extension source, it looks like in php_memcached.c:576 (and other places) there is some key validation that checks specifically that the keys are longer than 0 bytes and do not contain literal spaces. This could be extended to match the memcached protocol spec. Quickly adding a strchr(key, '\n') causes the userspace functions to behave predictably (returning false, and Memcached::getResultCode returns MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED).
 [2015-03-16 19:02 UTC] samantha at tembies dot com 
Diff of a quick and dirty change illustrating my earlier comment: https://gist.github.com/squinones/9b0c77c4685a5279187d
 [2015-03-17 17:04 UTC] samantha at tembies dot com 
PR containing sample code is open on the memcached repository. It should probably be dealt with there. 

https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached/pull/167
 [2020-08-11 14:31 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2020-08-11 14:31 UTC] cmb@php.net 
That PR has been merged, and the issue is supposed to be fixed as
of memcached 3.0.0.
 
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