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Bug #63876 multiget returns an array with keys containing chars <= 0x20 being broken
Submitted: 2012-12-30 19:34 UTC Modified: 2013-02-18 00:36 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (100.0%)
Same OS:2 (100.0%)
From: alex dot offshore at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: memcache (PECL)
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-12-30 19:34 UTC] alex dot offshore at gmail dot com
Description:
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When using Memcache::get for retrieving multiple entries, the keys of returned array may be broken, if key names contain some chars from 0x00 to 0x20. Everything is OK when using Memcache::get to retrieve single value.

Tested with PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.10 (version is irrelevant); php-memcache versions 3.0.6, 3.0.7 and 2.2.7; memcached 1.4.13.

Test script:
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<?php

$memcache = new Memcache();
$memcache->connect('localhost', '11211');

$prefix = 'TEST_';
$hex_key = '310e323334';
$key = $prefix . hex2bin($hex_key);

$value = 'test';

echo "Trying key: $prefix($hex_key)\n";

$set_result = $memcache->set($key, $value) !== false;
echo "set: " . ($set_result ? 'ok' : 'fail') . "\n";

$get_result_expected = $value;
$get_result = $memcache->get($key);
echo "get: " . (($get_result === $get_result_expected) ? 'ok' : 'fail') . ", '" . serialize($get_result) . "' vs '" . serialize($get_result_expected) . "'\n";

$multiget_result_expected = array($key => $value);
$multiget_result = $memcache->get(array($key));
echo "multiget: " . (($multiget_result === $multiget_result_expected) ? 'ok' : 'fail') . ", '" . serialize($multiget_result) . "' vs '" . serialize($multiget_result_expected) . "'\n";

echo "\n\n";


Expected result:
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Trying key: TEST_(310e323334)
set: ok
get: ok, 's:4:"test";' vs 's:4:"test";'
multiget: fail, 'a:1:{s:10:"TEST_1_234";s:4:"test";}' vs 'a:1:{s:10:"TEST_1234";s:4:"test";}'


Actual result:
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Trying key: TEST_(310e323334)
set: ok
get: ok, 's:4:"test";' vs 's:4:"test";'
multiget: ok, 'a:1:{s:10:"TEST_1?234";s:4:"test";}' vs 'a:1:{s:10:"TEST_1?234";s:4:"test";}'

(note: the "?" mark represents non-printable char)

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 [2012-12-30 20:46 UTC] alex dot offshore at gmail dot com
Sorry, exchg Expected/Actual texts.
 [2012-12-31 10:42 UTC] tony2001@php.net
memcache used to support only plain-text protocol some time ago, which didn't 
support binary keys or keys containing whitespaces for apparent reasons.
Because of that PECL/memcache sanitizes all the keys to make sure the resulting 
request string is valid and cannot be broken by malicious user input.
I'm not quite sure what's the status of such keys in the binary protocol, but I 
suspect it'd make very little sense to change PECL/memcache to support them.
What's the point in using binary keys in the first place?

Here's what memcached protocol documentation says:
=====
Data stored by memcached is identified with the help of a key. A key
is a text string which should uniquely identify the data for clients
that are interested in storing and retrieving it.  Currently the
length limit of a key is set at 250 characters (of course, normally
clients wouldn't need to use such long keys); the key must not include
control characters or whitespace.
=====
 [2012-12-31 10:42 UTC] tony2001@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2013-02-18 00:36 UTC] pecl-dev at lists dot php dot net
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we assume that you are no longer experiencing the problem.
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