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Bug #55620 base64_encode failure
Submitted: 2011-09-06 12:28 UTC Modified: 2015-08-02 14:53 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:1.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 1 (0.0%)
From: pajoye@php.net Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: Zlib related
PHP Version: 5.4SVN-2011-09-06 (SVN) OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2011-09-06 12:28 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Description:
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base64_decode fails (tested on windows and linux) using the following code (comes 
from a phpt for zlib)

Test script:
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<?php
$original = str_repeat("hallo php",4096);
$packed = gzencode($original);
echo strlen($packed)." ".strlen($original). "\n";
if (strcmp($original, gzdecode($packed)) == 0) echo "Strings are equal";
?>


Expected result:
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118 36864
Strings are equal


Actual result:
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118 36864

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 [2011-09-06 12:30 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=316252
Log: - use only zlib function and reported the failure with base64 in #55620
 [2011-09-06 12:30 UTC] pajoye@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of pajoye
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=316253
Log: - use only zlib function and reported the failure with base64 in #55620
 [2011-09-07 01:37 UTC] laruence@php.net
this test passed in my environ(Linux redhat 64bit, zlib-1.2.3)
 [2012-06-24 22:33 UTC] nikic@php.net
Can this be closed?
 [2015-08-02 14:53 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2015-08-02 14:53 UTC] cmb@php.net
The former test may have failed for a single different byte,
namely byte 10. This byte gives the OS on where the compression
took place[1], so checking against a hard-coded base64 encoded
value is supposed to be volatile.

Anyway, there is no base64_encode bug.

[1] <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952#page-7>
 
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