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Bug #66928 ob_start()/ob_end_clean() and memory_limit
Submitted: 2014-03-18 19:56 UTC Modified: 2014-12-30 10:42 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: leon at struktur dot de Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Output Control
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-03-18 19:56 UTC] leon at struktur dot de 
Description:
------------
COPY FROM : https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45392
STILL NOT FIXED, BUT BUG IS CLOSED !!


When memory_limit is reached, and one is using the output buffering functions, instead of just dying with an "out of memory" error, the contents of the buffer are spilled onto stdout.
The output_buffering ini setting wasn't set to any particular limit.

Test script:
---------------
<?php
ob_start();
$i = 0;
while($i++ < 10000000)  {
        echo str_repeat("lol", 42);
}
ob_end_clean();
/*Note that the 10,000,000 number varies according to your memory_limit*/

Expected result:
----------------
STDERR: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted at /home/flebron/cvs/php/php5.3-200806291230/main/output.c:395 (tried to allocate 133693441 bytes) in /home/flebron/cvs/php/ob.php on line 5

Actual result:
--------------
STDERR: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted at /home/flebron/cvs/php/php5.3-200806291230/main/output.c:395 (tried to allocate 133693441 bytes) in /home/flebron/cvs/php/ob.php on line 5

STDOUT: The text in the buffer is printed to stdout (millions of "lolol"s).

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 [2014-03-18 20:22 UTC] leon at struktur dot de 
New test script:

$img = @imagecreatefromstring(file_get_contents($file));
if($img !== false)
{
	imagealphablending($img, false);
	imagesavealpha($img, true);
	
	ob_start();
	imagepng($img);
	$img_content = ob_get_clean();
	
	imagedestroy($img);
	
	$img_content = base64_encode($img_content);
	
	return $img_content;
}

Output: "* PNG IHDR**"


New test #2 script:

$img = @imagecreatefromstring(file_get_contents($file));
if($img !== false)
{
	imagealphablending($img, false);
	imagesavealpha($img, true);
	
	ob_start();
	echo 'LALALA';
	imagepng($img);
	$img_content = ob_get_clean();
	
	imagedestroy($img);
	
	$img_content = base64_encode($img_content);
	
	return $img_content;
}

Output: "LALALA* PNG IHDR**"



BTW: It works (I get no output) when I add ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');
 [2014-07-06 02:14 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2014-07-06 02:14 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
[yohgaki@dev PHP-5.5]$ cat t.php
<?php
ob_start();
$i = 0;
while($i++ < 1024*4)  {
        echo str_repeat("a", 1024);
}
ob_end_clean();

?>

END
[yohgaki@dev PHP-5.5]$ ./php-bin -d error_reporting=-1 -d memory_limit=400000 t.php

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 400000 bytes exhausted at /home/yohgaki/git/oss/php.net/PHP-5.5/Zend/zend_stack.c:37 (tried to allocate 512 bytes) in /home/yohgaki/workspace/ext/git/oss/php.net/PHP-5.5/t.php on line 4

It seems working correctly.
Are you sure you have reached memory_limit?
 [2014-07-06 02:14 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
[yohgaki@dev PHP-5.5]$ cat t.php
<?php
ob_start();
$i = 0;
while($i++ < 1024*4)  {
        echo str_repeat("a", 1024);
}
ob_end_clean();

?>

END
[yohgaki@dev PHP-5.5]$ ./php-bin -d error_reporting=-1 -d memory_limit=400000 t.php

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 400000 bytes exhausted at /home/yohgaki/git/oss/php.net/PHP-5.5/Zend/zend_stack.c:37 (tried to allocate 512 bytes) in /home/yohgaki/workspace/ext/git/oss/php.net/PHP-5.5/t.php on line 4

It seems working correctly.
Are you sure you have reached memory_limit?
 [2014-12-30 10:42 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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