.. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. eg. Say you're running a particular forum software...
A URL like this will easily bring you down: http://site.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2.2250738585072011e-308 Here's the quick patch: --- ./Zend/zend_strtod.c.orig Thu Jan 6 14:09:49 2011 +++ ./Zend/zend_strtod.c Thu Jan 6 14:10:17 2011 @@ -2035,7 +2035,7 @@ int bb2, bb5, bbe, bd2, bd5, bbbits, bs2, c, dsign, e, e1, esign, i, j, k, nd, nd0, nf, nz, nz0, sign; CONST char *s, *s0, *s1; - double aadj, aadj1, adj; + volatile double aadj, aadj1, adj; volatile _double rv, rv0; Long L; ULong y, z; --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Ben Kinsey <bkin...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Ben Kinsey <bkin...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [LUAU] Eek, major PHP remote exploit bug > To: "LUAU" <luau@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org> > Date: Friday, January 7, 2011, 10:54 AM > The question for me is: can this bug > be exploited remotely on web > applications? I filter ids to only expect integers... > is there an integer > equivalent that will trigger this bug? > > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Julian Yap <julian_...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > This bug leads to a PHP/server hang. > > > > Bug: > > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53632 > > > > More discussion: > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2066084 > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/04/weird_php_dos_vuln/ > > > > Looks to effect 32-bit systems running various 5.x > versions of PHP. > > > > I was able to reproduce it. > > > > $ php -v > > PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Dec 14 2010 13:31:51) > > Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group > > Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend > Technologies > > $ php -r "print 2.2250738585072011e-308;" > > > > ... hang! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org > mailing list > > > > http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org > mailing list > http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org > _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org