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Bug #26345 ord() crashes when passing '|' char
Submitted: 2003-11-21 05:02 UTC Modified: 2003-12-01 03:15 UTC
From: jaime dot lopez at iic dot uam dot es Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 4.3.2 OS: AIX
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-11-21 05:02 UTC] jaime dot lopez at iic dot uam dot es 
Description:
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Apache process hangs out when calling ord() with reproducible arguments.



Reproduce code:
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function isalpha( $char )
{
  return( (ord($char) >= ord("a") and ord($char) <= ord("z")) ||
  (ord($char) >= ord("A") and ord($char) <= ord("Z"))  );
}

echo is_alpha('|') ;

... PHP hangs ...


Expected result:
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false

Actual result:
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nothing ( php hangs calling ord() )

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 [2003-11-21 05:38 UTC] wez@php.net 
strangely, I had a similar sounding problem using:

if (ord($word{0}) >= 127) {
}

under PHP 5 the other day.
 [2003-11-23 21:07 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
 [2003-12-01 03:15 UTC] sniper@php.net 
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change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.
 
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