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Bug #69268 version_compare returns wrongly when "special" characters are given
Submitted: 2015-03-20 09:35 UTC Modified: 2020-11-16 15:22 UTC
From: anlutro at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Linux (Debian)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2015-03-20 09:35 UTC] anlutro at gmail dot com
Description:
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When doing version_compare on strings that contain "special" characters like parenthesis or brackets, it returns entirely the wrong result.

While this isn't an issue for 99% of version strings, one of our applications has the option of either providing a regular version string OR a datetime string with the git commit hash at the end (mostly for the developers' sake). We "solved" this by telling all developers submitting packages to our system to remove paranthesis or brackets from the git hash suffix.

This behaviour is consistent across all PHP versions: http://3v4l.org/DaQQY

Test script:
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<?php
$v = '1.2.3 (59eda4e)';
var_dump(version_compare($v, $v));
var_dump(version_compare($v, $v, '<'));

$v = '1.2.3 [59eda4e]';
var_dump(version_compare($v, $v));
var_dump(version_compare($v, $v, '<'));

$v = '1.2.3 59eda4e';
var_dump(version_compare($v, $v));
var_dump(version_compare($v, $v, '<'));

Expected result:
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int(0)
bool(false)
int(0)
bool(false)
int(0)
bool(false)

Actual result:
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int(-1)
bool(true)
int(-1)
bool(true)
int(0)
bool(false)

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 [2020-11-16 15:22 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2020-11-16 15:22 UTC] cmb@php.net
<https://www.php.net/version_compare>:

| version_compare — Compares two "PHP-standardized" version number
| strings

"PHP-standardized" version numbers don't contain such "special"
characters.
 
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