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Bug #75395 Core dump in in timelib_get_time_zone_info
Submitted: 2017-10-17 06:59 UTC Modified: 2017-11-05 04:23 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: phil at jankaritech dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 7.1.10 OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-10-17 06:59 UTC] phil at jankaritech dot com 
Description:
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PHP 7.1.10
Using PHP dev server
Reproduced on both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10-BETA
Backtrace:
Core was generated by `php -S localhost:8080'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

warning: Unexpected size of section `.reg-xstate/19170' in core file.
#0  0x000055dd66964ca0 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x000055dd66964ca0 in ?? ()
#1  0x000055dd66966984 in timelib_get_time_zone_info ()
#2  0x000055dd6696884c in timelib_unixtime2local ()
#3  0x000055dd66944fc6 in php_format_date ()
#4  0x000055dd66b6dcbb in ?? ()
#5  0x000055dd66b70c55 in ?? ()
#6  0x000055dd66b7158e in ?? ()
#7  0x000055dd66b72119 in do_cli_server ()
#8  0x000055dd6693bf93 in main ()

So far I have narrowed it down in ownCloud10 to:
- skeleton directory of default files for a new user has >45 files
- create a new user
- login as that user
The PHP server is copying these files into the user's new folder, and thumbnails get generated and AJAX calls to display the thumbnails... Sorry - it needs cutting down into a more simplified actual code example!

PHP core dumps with the above backtrace.

Use <=45 files and it works fine.

I cannot reproduce it with PHP 7.0.22 (I can switch back and forth and the segfault comes and goes)

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 [2017-10-17 09:30 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2017-10-17 09:30 UTC] derick@php.net 
This backtrace isn't particularly useful, as it does not have any symbols.

Right now, I am also not convinced this is a bug *in* PHP. Ubuntu patches PHP's date/time support and that sometimes has bugs too. A backtrace with debugging symbols is needed for this, but I can't find a package for Ubuntu 16.04 that does this. Curiously, 16.04 also doesn't have a php7.1 package, so I am not sure where you got that from.
 [2017-10-17 10:38 UTC] phil at jankaritech dot com 
On Ubuntu 16.04 I get alternate PHP versions using:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

But the problem happens also in Ubuntu 17.10, which comes with PHP 7.1 by default. This is where I first noticed the problem.

The mention of Ubuntu 16.04 was just to demonstrate that I was able to use "the same" PHP on a different version of Ubuntu and reproduce the problem.

So I will reproduce again on Ubuntu 17.10 and see if the backtrace has more information.
 [2017-10-17 11:25 UTC] phil at jankaritech dot com 
The backtrace on Ubuntu 17.10 is just the same as I posted.

If you can point to any of the following I am happy to do more:
1) a package that will give symbols for gdb to report
2) where I find the Ubuntu patching of PHP stuff, to look at the diffs
3) if I should report this somewhere to Ubuntu?
4) whatever else...
 [2017-10-17 11:55 UTC] derick@php.net 
1. There should be a php-7.1-dbgsym package, at least in Ondrej's PPA
2. I had a look around, but can't find a link. You can do "apt source php7.1" though, and have a look at debian/patches/0013-Add-support-for-use-of-the-system-timezone-database.patch - the name might be slightly off, as this is with the Debian package I have locally
3. Maybe at https://deb.sury.org/#bug-reporting
 [2017-11-05 04:23 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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 [2019-03-27 13:38 UTC] reiter dot christoph at gmail dot com 
I just got a similar crash with Debian (PHP 7.3.3-1 (cli) (built: Mar  7 2019 19:43:34) ( NTS ))

#0  __strlen_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../strlen.S:120
#1  0x00005555557d7c8e in _estrdup (s=0x8000ea006368 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x8000ea006368>) at ./Zend/zend_alloc.c:2591
#2  0x000055555568da05 in timelib_get_time_zone_info (ts=1553693364, tz=0x7ffff5003140) at ./ext/date/lib/parse_tz.c:1247
#3  0x0000555555662918 in date_format (format=format@entry=0x5555558eb49c "r", format_len=format_len@entry=1, t=t@entry=0x7ffff5001000, localtime=localtime@entry=1)
    at ./ext/date/php_date.c:1162
#4  0x000055555566a55d in php_format_date (format=format@entry=0x5555558eb49c "r", format_len=format_len@entry=1, ts=1553693364, localtime=localtime@entry=1)
    at ./ext/date/php_date.c:1327
#5  0x00005555558889b0 in append_essential_headers (buffer=buffer@entry=0x7fffffffc990, client=client@entry=0x555555d0fd10, persistent=persistent@entry=1)
    at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:357
#6  0x000055555588b973 in php_cli_server_begin_send_static (client=0x555555d0fd10, server=0x5555559f7000 <server>) at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:2041
#7  php_cli_server_dispatch (client=0x555555d0fd10, server=0x5555559f7000 <server>) at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:2184
#8  php_cli_server_recv_event_read_request (server=0x5555559f7000 <server>, client=0x555555d0fd10) at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:2379
#9  0x000055555588bf70 in php_cli_server_do_event_for_each_fd_callback (_params=_params@entry=0x7fffffffcae0, fd=fd@entry=6, event=event@entry=1)
    at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:2462
#10 0x000055555588cc7b in php_cli_server_poller_iter_on_active (poller=0x5555559f7008 <server+8>, callback=0x55555588bf20 <php_cli_server_do_event_for_each_fd_callback>, 
    opaque=0x7fffffffcae0) at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:844
#11 php_cli_server_do_event_for_each_fd (whandler=0x555555889f80 <php_cli_server_send_event>, rhandler=0x55555588b680 <php_cli_server_recv_event_read_request>, 
    server=0x5555559f7000 <server>) at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:2480
#12 php_cli_server_do_event_loop (server=0x5555559f7000 <server>) at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:2490
#13 do_cli_server (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ./sapi/cli/php_cli_server.c:2612
#14 0x00005555556617c3 in main (argc=3, argv=0x555555a123f0) at ./sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1392
 
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