From:             dr at peytz dot dk
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      5.2.3
PHP Bug Type:     Safe Mode/open_basedir
Bug description:  open_basedir bypass via glob()

Description:
------------
file_exists() etc. does not allow checking the existence of files outside
the directories specified in open_basedir.

This can be circumvented using glob(). glob() does check open_basedir, but
its return type still reveals whether files exist outside open_basedir. The
existence of a file can be checked using !is_array(glob($filename)).


Reproduce code:
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var_dump(glob('/etc/hosts'));
var_dump(glob('/etc/does-not-exist'));


Expected result:
----------------
bool(false)
bool(false)

or

array(0) {
}
array(0) {
}


Actual result:
--------------
bool(false)
array(0) {
}

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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=trysnapshot44
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http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=trysnapshot52
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http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=needscript
Try newer version:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=support
Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=php3
Daylight Savings:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=dst
IIS Stability:                http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:              http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=float
No Zend Extensions:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41655&r=mysqlcfg

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