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Bug #19649 Nested [] in browscap.ini cause PHP to crash
Submitted: 2002-09-28 10:58 UTC Modified: 2002-10-14 13:23 UTC
From: mark at quarella dot co dot uk Assigned: zeev (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 4.3.0-dev OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-09-28 10:58 UTC] mark at quarella dot co dot uk 
An entry in browscap.ini similar to the following:
  [Mozilla/4.76 (Macintosh;US;PPC) Opera 4.?  [en]]
.. will cause Apache/PHP to fail to start (segmentation fault) due to the nested [] symbols.

The following complete browscap.ini would be enough to reproduce this:

   [Opera 4.0]
   
   [Mozilla/4.76 (Macintosh;US;PPC) Opera 4.?  [en]]
   parent=Opera 4.0
   platform=MacPPC

Interestingly, without a correctly formed entry on the first line PHP reports a warning instead.

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 [2002-10-01 18:00 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
verified & updated version.

The problem occurs because 'arg2' passed to php_browscap_parser_cb() is NULL and there are no checks for it, which causes Z_STRLEN_P(arg2) to core.
 [2002-10-14 13:23 UTC] iliaa@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.
 [2003-01-24 09:04 UTC] ronstk at worldonline dot nl 
From the browsecap.ini included v4.2.3.

[AE/2.1 (linux)]
browser=AE/2.1(Linux)
;browser="AE/2.1(Linux)"
version=2.1

gives me the error in dosbox:
PHP:  Error parsing E:\Iservers\PHP\browscap\browscap.ini on line
8206.
The fault here are the '(' and ')' 
This is.nt working with 4.3.x also
 [2004-02-24 15:38 UTC] bcash at alpineinternet dot com 
Found a similar cause for this problem:

-- snip from browscap.ini --
[Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)]
parent=Yahoo
browser=Yahoo! Slurp
AK=False
SK=False
-- end snip --

The "!" in the browser key is causing this problem on my system.  The "!" in the section name is ok.  When I remove the bang from the browser key, the browser.ini is able to load properly.

(This is php 4.3.4 on FreeBSD)
 
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