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Bug #51350 recursively including non existing file causes segfault
Submitted: 2010-03-22 17:08 UTC Modified: 2010-03-22 22:52 UTC
From: slogster at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 5.2.13 OS: freebsd & linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-03-22 17:08 UTC] slogster at gmail dot com 
Description:
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function a(){include("/nofile"); a();} a();

/nofine is non existing file

Test script:
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function a(){include("/nofile"); a();} a();

/nofile is non existing file

Expected result:
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should not segfault

Actual result:
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segfault

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 [2010-03-22 17:45 UTC] johannes@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2010-03-22 17:45 UTC] johannes@php.net 
Recusrion in PHP leads to a stack overflow for the process, which we can't properly handle ourselves so the operating system terminates the PHP process. This is the expected behavior.
 [2010-03-22 21:25 UTC] tyra3l at gmail dot com 
suhosin protects against infinite recursion since 2006.
if you can crash the php engine from userland, then you can reset the seed
http://www.baohx.com/extras/zendcon/lesserknownsecurityproblemsinphpapplications.pdf
page 33: attacker can get fresh seed by crashing php.
so its not only an inconvinience, but can be a security problem also.

Tyrael
 [2010-03-22 21:29 UTC] pajoye@php.net 
That's known and there is no bug per se here.

Not everything the suhosin patch does is the right thing to do to solve a problem. As far as I remember there was a (long) discussion on internals about this. You may find it interesting.
 [2010-03-22 21:39 UTC] tyra3l at gmail dot com 
should worth to reading it.
could you at least give me the year for that discussion?
I think, that in this case the script should terminate by memory exhaustion (memory_limit) or time_limit exhaustion, not with segfault.
In a managed language I shouldn't be able to do stack overflow from userspace.
At least not this easily.
 [2010-03-22 22:52 UTC] slogster at gmail dot com 
I've tried it with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 and it segfaults too
 [2010-07-14 23:31 UTC] tyra3l at gmail dot com 
afaik you need the suhosin extension for this functionality, not just the patch. 
http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.executor.max_depth

Tyrael
 
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