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Bug #41582 SimpleXML crashes.
Submitted: 2007-06-04 09:53 UTC Modified: 2007-06-26 01:00 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:3.7 ± 0.9
Reproduced:2 of 3 (66.7%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:1 (50.0%)
From: judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com Assigned: dmitry (profile)
Status: No Feedback Package: SimpleXML related
PHP Version: 5CVS-2007-06-04 (CVS) OS: Any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-06-04 09:53 UTC] judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com 
Description:
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the following code segafaults.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <collection></collection>');

$xml->movie[]->characters->character[0]->name = 'Miss Coder';

//or crashes too ( same issue) 
//$xml->movie[0]->characters->character[]->name = 'Miss Coder';

var_dump($xml->asXml());

?>


Expected result:
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Fatal Error: cannot use [] for reading.

Actual result:
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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 47237115809024 (LWP 23360)]
0x000000000056e7d0 in sxe_prop_dim_read (object=0xc94dd8, member=0x0, elements=0 '\0', attribs=1 '\001', silent=0 '\0')
    at /home/cristian/php5/ext/simplexml/simplexml.c:254
254             if (Z_TYPE_P(member) == IS_LONG) {
....

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 [2007-06-04 10:59 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Marcus, check the patch out:
http://dev.daylessday.org/diff/bug41582.diff
 [2007-06-05 10:03 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2007-06-06 10:53 UTC] judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com 
fix works. but leaks memory in the above situation.

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <collection></collection>');

$xml->movie[1]->characters->character[]->name = 'Miss Coder';


Zend/zend_execute.c(1249) :  Freeing 0x00C97DA0 (24 bytes), script=simplecrashes.php
=== Total 1 memory leaks detected ===
 [2007-06-06 11:28 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Well, there are some cases which cannot be fixed at all.
Fortunately they only happen when the code is b0rked, so I don't think it's critical.
Markus, can you think of any solution for the leak?
 [2007-06-13 13:53 UTC] dmitry@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2007-06-15 06:32 UTC] judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com 
Dmitry, first thanks for taking care of correcting the leak.. however.. now a funny warning is raised !!

$xml->movie[1]->characters->character[]->name = 'Miss Coder';

causes :

Warning: main(): (main ? x_X) 

Cannot add element movie number 1 when only 0 such elements exist in...(this part is correct though)

that's not so annoying or critical and we can live with it, however does not look good.

Addtionally I gave this stuff a better test now.. and Im still able to find some good as well edge/wrong cases where this stuff needs improvement.

for example:


$xml->movie[2.5]->characters->character[0]->name = '';

leaks memory as well. this is bad code of course ;) however I think this raises the real issue.. IMHO the code should check if the element number is >= 0 and an integer (not a float,maybe cast it to integer? and or emit warning/notice when the wrong type is used...)


other case, that "looks" valid.

// the string '0';
$xml->movie['0']->characters->character[0]->name = '';

leaks memory and emits...
Notice: Indirect modification of overloaded element of SimpleXMLElement has no effect in .. but 0 as an integer works fine :-)
 [2007-06-18 13:39 UTC] nlopess@php.net 
Dmitry: new comment added that may need your attention
 [2007-06-18 14:27 UTC] dmitry@php.net 
The warning in first case is right. You cannot add element with index 1.

In following examples you try to set XML attribute with name '2.5' and '0' and add somthing to this attribute. It is not possible to add something to attribute and engine told you that "Indirect modification of overloaded element of SimpleXMLElement has no effect". Memory leaks in such situation are expected.

The only thing that I can do - prevent creaton of attributes with numeric names.
 [2007-06-26 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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