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Bug #25798 forever-run or no-error-abort in preg_match
Submitted: 2003-10-08 14:04 UTC Modified: 2004-04-21 16:02 UTC
Votes:9
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:8 of 9 (88.9%)
Same Version:4 (50.0%)
Same OS:1 (12.5%)
From: musha dot yoshinori at nifty dot ne dot jp Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: 4.3.6 OS: Windows XP Pro
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-10-08 14:04 UTC] musha dot yoshinori at nifty dot ne dot jp
Description:
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PHP aborts without any message or runs forever in below case.
Platform: Windows XP Pro, Apache2.0.46, PHP4.3.3

For example, in preg_match('/a(?:.)+z/',$str,$match), the length of string matched between 'a' and 'z' is more than approximately 1KB. It always appears. According to the length, PHP aborts without any message or runs forever.

It also appears in preg_match('/a(?>.)+z/',$str,$match), but does not appear in preg_match('/a(.)+z/',$str,$match) and preg_match('/a.+z/',$str,$match).

Actually, I want to use preg_match_all('/<tr[^>]*>((?>.(?!<\/tr>))+.)<\/tr>/is',$str,$matches) and so on.

Reproduce code:
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$str =<<<EOD
a
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z
EOD;

preg_match('/a(?:.)+z/s',$str,$match);
echo $match[0];
// It cannot reach the 'echo $match[0];'.


Expected result:
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a
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z


Actual result:
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We cannot get any result.

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 [2003-10-15 01:59 UTC] sniper@php.net
Reproduced with latest CVS (under Windows XP), PHP as Apache2 module. Works fine with CLI.

 [2004-01-19 23:51 UTC] musha dot yoshinori at nifty dot ne dot jp
I have tried to check the latest version, 4.3.5RC2-dev, http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip.
I'm sorry that it doesn't work well. The result doesn't change from previous versions.
 [2004-01-20 03:50 UTC] sniper@php.net
It's a PCRE limitation, NOT any bug in PHP..

 [2004-01-20 06:31 UTC] indy at indeyets dot pp dot ru
however, it works just fine on Apache-1 systems
 [2004-04-21 16:03 UTC] musha dot yoshinori at nifty dot ne dot jp
It does not work on PHP4.3.6, IIS5.1 or Apache2.0.46, and Windows XP pro, too.
 
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