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Bug #37262 var_export() does not escape \0 character
Submitted: 2006-05-01 15:15 UTC Modified: 2007-12-09 14:31 UTC
From: idiom at mail dot ru Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Variables related
PHP Version: 5.1.3, 4.4.2 OS: Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-05-01 15:15 UTC] idiom at mail dot ru 
Description:
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var_export() outputs \0 in variables as is, messing browser

Reproduce code:
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$func = create_function('$a', 'return $a;');
var_export($func);

Expected result:
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identical to:
$func = create_function('$a', 'return $a;');
$output = addcslashes(var_export($func, true), "\0");
echo $output;

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 [2006-05-01 16:10 UTC] derick@php.net 
I'll have a look
 [2006-07-22 12:33 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Derick, still looking?
 [2006-10-09 18:09 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
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http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2007-12-09 14:31 UTC] derick@php.net 
This was fixed improperly, as the resulting output could not be parsed back to its original string. A fix for this is in PHP 5.2.6/5.3.0/6.0.0.
 
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