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Bug #51784 Segmentation fault! causes apache to crash.
Submitted: 2010-05-10 13:52 UTC Modified: 2010-05-10 14:19 UTC
From: notdefix at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-05-10 13:52 UTC] notdefix at hotmail dot com
Description:
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Copied from: http://nl2.php.net/preg_replace
PHP version: Unknown

preg_replace (and str_replace too) will crash php if you use ' ' (space) as replace value for a large number of matches.

following Apache Error-Log message:

[Mon May 10 09:23:58 2010] [notice] child pid 39251 exit signal Illegal instruction (4)

where pid 39251 was the PHP-thread processing that request.


Test script:
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Copied from: http://nl2.php.net/preg_replace
PHP version: Unknown


For example:

$string = preg_replace('/( )+/', ' ', $string);
$string = str_replace(' ', ' ', $string);

will crash if $string contains many seperate matches of ' ' producing 


$string = preg_replace('/( )+/', '', $string);
$string = str_replace(' ', '', $string);

or

$string = preg_replace('/( )+/', '_', $string);
$string = str_replace(' ', '_', $string);

do all work fine.



This seems to be a bug in the underlying PCRE implementation, and not in PHP itself.


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 [2010-05-10 14:19 UTC] pajoye@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2010-05-10 14:19 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions.  Due to the volume
of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not
a bug.  The support channels will be able to provide an explanation
for you.

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