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Bug #64019 Segmentation fault if yaml anchor ends with a colon
Submitted: 2013-01-18 11:50 UTC Modified: 2013-11-16 21:25 UTC
From: alayn at irontec dot com Assigned: bd808 (profile)
Status: Closed Package: yaml (PECL)
PHP Version: 5.4.4 OS: Linux/Debian
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2013-01-18 11:50 UTC] alayn at irontec dot com
Description:
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A Segmentation fault occurs if a colon is at the end of a Yaml anchor.

Test script:
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test.yaml
----------
configAnchors:
  - &wrongAnchor:   # This last colon (:) makes the script die
    configKey: configValue

config:
  <<: *wrongAnchor

test.php
---------
<?php
yaml_parse_file('test.yaml');

Expected result:
----------------
PHP Warning:  yaml_parse_file(): scanning error encountered during parsing: did not find expected alphabetic or numeric character (line 2, column 17), context while scanning an anchor (line 2, column 5) in /path/to/test.php on line 2

Actual result:
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Segmentation fault

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 [2013-01-21 22:22 UTC] alayn at irontec dot com
I've been taking a deeper look in this issue and I can simplify the failing test 
to:

test.yaml
---------
config:
  <<: 
---------

I think the colon in the anchor just returns an empty value, so the problem is 
that an empty "merge" triggers the segmentation fault.

Maybe this line should just be ignored, without warnings?
 [2013-01-21 22:22 UTC] alayn at irontec dot com
-Operating System: +Operating System: Linux/Debian -PHP Version: Irrelevant +PHP Version: 5.4.4
 [2013-11-16 21:25 UTC] bd808@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: bd808
 [2013-11-16 21:25 UTC] bd808@php.net
The fix for this bug has been committed.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.


 [2013-11-19 05:47 UTC] bd808@php.net
Patch included in 1.1.1 release.
 
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