Hi.

I think following things may be a security risk in mod_php, maybe allowing a DoS attak 
if your server users can use  php engine for your www pages.

 
If you make a file  foo.php what contains  function  virtual(), pointing to itself, ie 
virtual(foo.php)
at least in php 4.3.2  an infinite lop occure, that eat up all the memory and  swap, 
eat all the  resouces and script is terminated with :

"failed to open stream: Limit of open files reached  "

and 

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to 
allocate 4260 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
  

I suggest to add  a check for maximum recursion level in virtual() if possible and   
an appropriate directive into the php.ini file that can set this recursion level.


Regards, NTPT 

PS: please execuse my bad english

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