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Bug #32168 A recovering of variable while using reference to $_SESSION
Submitted: 2005-03-03 11:42 UTC Modified: 2005-03-17 13:28 UTC
From: KRomas at goldentele dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Session related
PHP Version: 4CVS-2005-03-09 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-03-03 11:42 UTC] KRomas at goldentele dot com 
Description:
------------
If we erase the $_SESSION and then make the reference to some session variable X, the value of X is recovering, ie not erased.

Configure Command:
./configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/apache' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/Zend/etc' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-gd' '--with-oci8=/oracle/8.1.7' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-sigchild' '--with-zlib' '--enable-sockets' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/include' '--with-iconv' '--with-iconv-dir=/usr/local' '--disable-debug' '--with-sybase-ct=/usr/local/freetds'

Reproduce code:
---------------
Please run folow files in order:
1.php
<?
	session_start();
	
	$_SESSION	=	Array();
	$_SESSION['a']['b']	=	1;
	
	echo	'<PRE>';
	var_dump($_SESSION);
?>

2.php
<?
	session_start();

	$_SESSION	=	Array();
	//unset($_SESSION['a']);
	//session_unregister('a');

	//$val		=	$_SESSION['a'];
	$val		=	& $_SESSION['a'];

	echo '<PRE>';
	var_dump($_SESSION);
?>

3.php
<?
	session_start();
	
	echo '<PRE>';
	var_dump($_SESSION);
?>

Expected result:
----------------
array(1) {
  ["a"]=>
  &NULL
}

Actual result:
--------------
array(1) {
  ["a"]=>
  &array(1) {
    ["b"]=>
    int(1)
  }
}

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 [2005-03-03 12:30 UTC] KRomas at goldentele dot com 
There is a result for 3-rd file
 [2005-03-04 14:42 UTC] KRomas at goldentele dot com 
Sorry, Win-version 4.3.10 hasn't this bug, but Linux-version 4.3.10!
 [2005-03-07 00:40 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip
 [2005-03-09 08:31 UTC] KRomas at goldentele dot com 
For now PHP Version is 4.3.11-dev (Linux) and there is the same error:
array(1) {
  ["a"]=>
  &array(1) {
    ["b"]=>
    int(1)
  }
}
Win-version work perfectly however:
array(1) {
  ["a"]=>
  NULL
}
 [2005-03-09 22:07 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Are you sure you're trying same PHP version in Windows?
(before installing the snapshot delete EVERY file even remotely related to PHP..)
 [2005-03-10 10:29 UTC] KRomas at goldentele dot com 
Yes.
I have downloaded php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip, completely removed d:\Program Files\php\, got message "The requested URL /php/php.exe/3.php was not found on this server", extracted  archive to d:\Program Files\php\, executed script and got right response in contrast to Linux-version.
---------- phpinfo:
PHP Version 4.3.11-dev
System  Windows NT 5.0 build 2195  
Zend Engine v1.3.0
SERVER_SOFTWARE  Apache/1.3.33 (Win32)
 [2005-03-11 08:23 UTC] KRomas at goldentele dot com 
Have you the same result
array(1) {
  ["a"]=>
  &array(1) {
    ["b"]=>
    int(1)
  }
}
on Linux-version of PHP?
 [2005-03-14 21:55 UTC] sniper@php.net 
I'm getting the expected result with Linux. Check your php.ini settings, the ones important are: register_globals=off, and all the session.bug_compat*
 [2005-03-17 13:28 UTC] KRomas at goldentele dot com 
There is register_globals=on on my system. I understand this as value has recovered from global variable. But why recovering not complete if I replace 
$val		=	& $_SESSION['a'];
on
$val		=	$_SESSION['a'];
?
 
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