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Bug #25885 mail() causes apache2 to crash when message is empty, and headers is non-empty
Submitted: 2003-10-15 14:19 UTC Modified: 2003-10-16 01:19 UTC
From: ben at krackeler dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Mail related
PHP Version: 4.3.3 OS: WinXP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-10-15 14:19 UTC] ben at krackeler dot com 
Description:
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I use a MIME mail class to send HTML emails. The class prepends the headers to the body, then sends the message as follows:

$email .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$email .= "Content-Type: text/html;\r\n";
$email .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";
$email .= "\r\n";
$email .= "html message";
mail($to, $subject, "", $email);

This code worked in 4.3.2 in windows.

Since upgrading to 4.3.3, the same code causes Apache to crash.

As as workaround I changed the message parameter to a single space, and Apache does not crash anymore.
mail($to, $subject, " ", $email);

System Setup:

WinXP SP1
Apache/2.0.47 (Win32)
mod_ssl/2.0.47
OpenSSL/0.9.7b
PHP/4.3.3
MySQL/3.23.58-nt-log

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 [2003-10-16 01:19 UTC] sniper@php.net 
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