Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54465&edit=1
ID: 54465 Comment by: wwwound at gmail dot com Reported by: wwwound at gmail dot com Summary: PHP crashes when passing large object to string functions Status: Open Type: Bug Package: Reproducible crash Operating System: CentOs PHP Version: 5.3.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: May be... But if we passing strval($foo) instead of $foo, it works fine and recursion doesnt currupt heap or violate memory access Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-04-05 09:21:29] scott...@php.net Isn't this just smashing the stack with a recursion 15603 levels deep? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-04-04 16:04:07] wwwound at gmail dot com Description: ------------ PHP crashes when passing large object ( with __toString() method ) to string functions (like substr(), urlencode() etc.) Test script: --------------- <?php class Foo { protected $obj; function rec($i = 0, $obj) { $this -> obj = $obj; // >5603 - segmentation fault or zend_mm_heap corrupted // With some values can work as expected if ( $i < 15604) { $this -> rec(++$i, $this); } } function __toString() { $this -> rec(0, $this); return "Hello, world!"; } } $foo = new Foo(); substr($foo, 0, 5); // This is ok //echo "\nHello!\n"; // But if we begin using variables "zend_mm_heap corrupted" or "Segmentation Fault" $a = "aaaaa\n"; echo $a; ?> Expected result: ---------------- Expecting correct appication exit Actual result: -------------- "Segmentation Fault" or "zend_mm_heap corrupted" errors ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54465&edit=1