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Bug #55182 finfo_file() doesn't detect right mime-type
Submitted: 2011-07-11 16:33 UTC Modified: 2016-12-04 04:22 UTC
Votes:9
Avg. Score:4.3 ± 0.8
Reproduced:9 of 9 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (22.2%)
Same OS:2 (22.2%)
From: dominique at ramaekers-stassart dot be Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 5.3SVN-2011-07-11 (SVN) OS: Ubuntu 10.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-07-11 16:33 UTC] dominique at ramaekers-stassart dot be
Description:
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The finfo_file command detects openxml documents (xlsb, xlsx,...) as application/zip files.

Can this be fixed?

There are a lot of people who have to hack the mediawiki code to allow these files for upload. With these hacks they lose a part of there security: the checking of the finfo_file-mime-type against the file extension itself...


Test script:
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php > $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
php > echo finfo_file($finfo, '/mnt/Transfert/test.xlsb');
application/zip





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 [2012-08-14 19:58 UTC] tom at tombartling dot com
This also fails to detect the correct mime-type for PHP files. If the file starts with <?php, it returns text/x-php as the mime-type. If the file starts with <!DOCTYPE html><html>... and the PHP code is anywhere else in the file, it returns text/html as the mime-type.

It fails to detect a CSV file correctly. 

This is a problem for the CodeIgniter framework, since it's file upload class uses this function.

I'm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga).
 [2012-08-15 15:04 UTC] narf at bofh dot bg
AFAIK, this is depends on the OS and external packages. MIME type detection isn't a problem just for PHP and I doubt there's much that can be done about it.
 [2016-11-24 16:02 UTC] ab@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2016-11-24 16:02 UTC] ab@php.net
Thanks for the report. The concrete file is needed in this case.

Thanks.
 [2016-12-04 04:22 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
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