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Bug #39412 base64_decode does not return FALSE on failure
Submitted: 2006-11-07 10:01 UTC Modified: 2006-11-07 14:45 UTC
From: phpbugs at staznosti dot sk Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: *URL Functions
PHP Version: 4.4.4 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-11-07 10:01 UTC] phpbugs at staznosti dot sk 
Description:
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base64_decode does not return FALSE on failure, return garbled (binary) text instead

Reproduce code:
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$string="This is short string!";

$test=base64_decode($string);

if ($test===FALSE) echo 'text is not base64 encoded';
else echo $test;

Expected result:
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FALSE should be returned

Actual result:
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garbled text / binary string

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 [2006-11-07 14:20 UTC] bjori@php.net 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of PHP, which you can download at 
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Will not get fixed in 4.4, but already fixed in 5.2.

php -r 'var_dump(base64_decode("This is short string!", 
true));'
bool(false)
 [2006-11-07 14:45 UTC] phpbugs at staznosti dot sk 
I think this should get fixed in 4.x branch, too, as many people don't want (you can guess why - incompatiblity 4.x/5.x is the thing) or are not able to switch.
 
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