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Bug #45019 Segmentation fault with SELECT ? and UNION
Submitted: 2008-05-16 08:11 UTC Modified: 2009-08-28 07:00 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 1.0
Reproduced:1 of 2 (50.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: pumuckel at metropolis dot de Assigned: andrey (profile)
Status: Closed Package: MySQLi related
PHP Version: 5.3CVS-2008-05-16 (snap) OS: Linux Gentoo
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2008-05-16 08:11 UTC] pumuckel at metropolis dot de
Description:
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We experienced some strange behaviour when using "INSERT INTO ... select ? ... union select ? ..."

Some bound variables have been inserted, but were truncated somewhere within the strings.

We have created a simple test script which only selects and returns the contents we bound. 
With "SELECT ? UNION SELECT ?" and 2 bound variables we can see, that the contents of the variables are not the same when reading back from db.

With the code below we even managed to get a segmentation fault.



Reproduce code:
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<?php
$db = new mysqli($hostname, $username, $password, $dbname);

$foo = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
$foo2 = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
$stmt = $db->prepare("SELECT CAST('x' as CHAR) X UNION SELECT CAST(? AS CHAR(20)) UNION SELECT CAST(? as CHAR(50))");
$stmt->bind_param("ss", $foo, $foo2);
$stmt->bind_result($bar);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->fetch(); // first to fetch "foo"
echo("F1: $bar vs $foo (".strlen($bar)." vs. ".strlen($foo).")\n");
$stmt->fetch(); // second to fetch $foo
echo("F2: $bar vs $foo (".strlen($bar)." vs. ".strlen($foo).")\n");
$stmt->fetch(); // second to fetch casted $foo
echo("F3: $bar vs $foo2 (".strlen($bar)." vs. ".strlen($foo2).")\n");
$stmt->free_result();
?>

Expected result:
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Returned variable $bar should contain contents of 'x', $foo, $foo2:

F1: x vs 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (1 vs. 36)
F2: 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ vs 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (36 vs. 36)
F3: 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ vs 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (36 vs. 36)


Actual result:
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F1: x vs 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (1 vs. 36)
F2: 0123 vs 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (4 vs. 36)
Segmentation fault

With gdb:

F1: x vs 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (1 vs. 36)
F2: 0123 vs 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (4 vs. 36)
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
mysqli_stmt_fetch_libmysql (ht=0, return_value=0x86f9288, return_value_ptr=0x0, this_ptr=0x86f8fb8, return_value_used=0) at /usr/local/src/php5.3-200805151430/ext/mysqli/mysqli_api.c:837
837                             if (Z_TYPE_P(stmt->result.vars[i]) == IS_STRING) {
(gdb) where
#0  mysqli_stmt_fetch_libmysql (ht=0, return_value=0x86f9288, return_value_ptr=0x0, this_ptr=0x86f8fb8, return_value_used=0) at /usr/local/src/php5.3-200805151430/ext/mysqli/mysqli_api.c:837
#1  0x082e92bd in zend_do_fcall_common_helper_SPEC (execute_data=0x8729f38) at /usr/local/src/php5.3-200805151430/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:194
#2  0x082daa77 in execute (op_array=0x86f843c) at /usr/local/src/php5.3-200805151430/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:96
#3  0x082ba797 in zend_execute_scripts (type=8, retval=0x0, file_count=3) at /usr/local/src/php5.3-200805151430/Zend/zend.c:1195
#4  0x0826ad8c in php_execute_script (primary_file=0xbfd034f4) at /usr/local/src/php5.3-200805151430/main/main.c:2077
#5  0x083437f6 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfd03684) at /usr/local/src/php5.3-200805151430/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1139

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 [2008-07-14 18:17 UTC] uw@php.net
Verified - there are issues with UNION. I'll play with it. Andrey, wait for my test code.
 [2008-07-14 19:16 UTC] uw@php.net
This looks like a libmysql only issue. Pumuckel, if possible give mysqlnd a test with your code.
 [2008-07-15 12:13 UTC] pumuckel at metropolis dot de
Client API version: mysqlnd 5.0.4-dev - 080501 - $Revision: 1.3.2.15

With this version and this script we do not get segmentation fault.

But I have another script where you won't get expected results:

[...]
$foo = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
$foo2 = "foo238964283467254725472725347254757652734522374628346246";
$stmt = $db->prepare("SELECT ? UNION SELECT ?");
$stmt->bind_param("ss", $foo, $foo2);
$stmt->bind_result($bar);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->fetch(); // first to fetch "foo"
echo("F1: $bar vs $foo (should be equal)\n");
$stmt->fetch(); // second to fetch $foo
echo("F2: $bar vs $foo2 (should be equal)\n");
$stmt->free_result();
[...]

 Mike
 [2009-08-27 08:54 UTC] andrey@php.net
Can't be fixed, as libmysql is faulty. Metadata changes when using UNIONS, mysqlnd handles it, but libmysql doesn't well. If you have SELECT with UNION and different metadata - then use mysqlnd.
 [2009-08-28 07:00 UTC] pumuckel at metropolis dot de
Hi Andrey,

I personally can live with that - since we are using 5.3 & mysqlnd successfully in production. I'm going to close this bug. Thank you anyway.
 
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