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