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Bug #67396 Stack exhaustion in imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist
Submitted: 2014-06-08 10:36 UTC Modified: 2014-06-10 18:43 UTC
From: mikispag at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: IMAP related
PHP Version: 5.5.13 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-06-08 10:36 UTC] mikispag at gmail dot com 
Description:
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This is a stack exhaustion in PHP imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist, which calls libc-client rfc822_parse_phrase -> rfc822_parse_word

Test script:
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<?php

imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist(str_repeat("x\n", 200000), "a");

?>

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 [2014-06-10 18:43 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix
 [2014-06-10 18:43 UTC] aharvey@php.net 
I don't think there's much we can do about this one: it's an issue in c-client, and attempting to clamp the input string to prevent this is going to result in madness, since it's going to vary depending on the OS, architecture, stack size, and so on. (See also the various bugs over the years about PCRE recursion.)

If c-client ever provides a non-recursive interface for this, then we can see about reimplementing imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist() to use it, but right now this is a won't fix.
 
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