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Doc Bug #67554 FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING documentation should state that it strips the null byte
Submitted: 2014-07-02 15:33 UTC Modified: 2018-03-17 18:23 UTC
From: malaimo923 at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Open Package: Filter related
PHP Version: 5.5.14 OS: CentOS 6.5
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2014-07-02 15:33 UTC] malaimo923 at gmail dot com
Description:
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When using the FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING filter on a string with a null byte, the null byte character will be removed.

Could this be added to the documentation?

http://php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.php



Test script:
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<?php

$a = array_map('chr', range(0,32));

for($i = 0; $i < 32; $i++) {
        if (strlen($a[$i]) != strlen(filter_var($a[$i], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING))) {
                echo 'ASCII character '.$i." has been removed from the string\n";
        }
}


Expected result:
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The function removes the null byte, this could be the intended functionality.

The PHP function strip_tags also removes the null byte and it is listed in the documentation.

Additionally when using the filter flag FILTER_FLAG_ENCODE_LOW the return value is instead the encoded version of the null byte &#0;


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-Type: Feature/Change Request +Type: Documentation Problem -Package: filter +Package: Filter related
 
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