Re: [PHP-DEV] Possible bug in wddx_a.c in PHP-3.0.16 From: Andrei Zmievski (andrei <email protected>)
Date: 05/25/00

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Joe Clarke wrote:
> I searched the archives for mateches, and came across some similar cases
> back in PHP-3.0.8. The developer that wrote the WDDX code said he could
> not reproduce this. I would be more than happy to provide data that will
> cause the Apache PHP module to seg fault. When run with PHP standalone,
> serializing this data produces the attached output. Here is a sample:
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Block 0x084A03C0 status at functions/wddx_a.c:206:
> Beginning: OK (allocated on functions/wddx_a.c:236, 24 bytes)
> End: Overflown (magic=0x2A8FCC00 instead of 0x2A8FCC84)
> 1 byte(s) overflown
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Basically, I'm serializing a fair amount of data (~ 100K). If I try
> serializing smaller amounts of data, I do not run into this problem. I'm
> using expat-1.1 with PHP-3.0.16 on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE. I build PHP out
> of the ports collection and integrated with Apache 3.0.12. Also, I built
> a standalone PHP application to test scripts. This standalone also is
> built against expat-1.1 The same data is serialized properly using Perl's
> WDDX 1.0 module. If I can, I'll file a bug against this, but bugs.php.net
> seemed to be down. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks, I fixed it in the CVS.

-Andrei
* Software never has bugs. It just develops random features. * 

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