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Bug #71592 External entity processing never fail regardless of handler return code
Submitted: 2016-02-15 01:39 UTC Modified: 2018-10-30 17:57 UTC
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From: anrdaemon at freemail dot ru Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: XML related
PHP Version: 5.6.18 OS: Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2016-02-15 01:39 UTC] anrdaemon at freemail dot ru
Description:
------------
Despite documentation[1] explicitly stating that "If the value returned from the handler is FALSE (which it will be if no value is returned), the XML parser will stop parsing and xml_get_error_code() will return XML_ERROR_EXTERNAL_ENTITY_HANDLING.", the output of the attached test script will always be "No error".

phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.6.18

xml

XML Support => active
XML Namespace Support => active
libxml2 Version => 2.9.3

[1]http://php.net/xml_set_external_entity_ref_handler

Test script:
---------------
<?php
$parser = xml_parser_create_ns('UTF-8');
xml_set_external_entity_ref_handler($parser, function($self, $names, $base, $system_id, $public_id)
  {
    print "@{$names}: '{$system_id}' {$public_id}\n";
    /* Ref: http://php.net/xml_set_external_entity_ref_handler
      If the value returned from the handler is FALSE (which it will be if no
      value is returned), the XML parser will stop parsing and
      xml_get_error_code() will return XML_ERROR_EXTERNAL_ENTITY_HANDLING.
    */
    return false;
  }
);

xml_parse($parser, '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE p [
  <!ENTITY pic PUBLIC "image.gif" "http://example.org/image.gif">
]>
<p>&pic;</p>');

print xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser)) . "\n";
?>


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 [2018-03-14 17:45 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2018-03-14 17:45 UTC] cmb@php.net
This part of the documentation refers to libexpat based ext/xml.
For libxml2 based ext/xml, the external entity reference handler
is effectively a void function.  Not sure, whether libexpat's
behavior could be implemented with libxml2.
 [2018-10-09 21:21 UTC] cmb@php.net
<https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3596> is supposed to solve this bug.
 [2018-10-27 15:32 UTC] cmb@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of cmbecker69@gmx.de
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=829b0df77b20392115d75fb82c56ad94edc1e423
Log: Fix #71592: External entity processing never fails
 [2018-10-27 15:32 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 [2018-10-27 15:35 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2018-10-30 01:42 UTC] anrdaemon at freemail dot ru
May I point out, that the source XML in the test case contains at least 2 issues?
1. It's not well-formed. (<p></nop>)
2. Its root tag does not match DOCTYPE declaration.
 [2018-10-30 17:57 UTC] cmb@php.net
> It's not well-formed. (<p></nop>)

This is on purpose to make sure that the parsing bails out early.

> Its root tag does not match DOCTYPE declaration.

Thanks!  Indeed, that's a mistake.

Fixed with <http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=2816a3fdfa23cf0711251b8d1e9ffad3d281ea96>.
 
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