Bug #69224 [Dup]: Fileinfo tries to allocate huge amounts of memory for some text files

From: Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:42:15 +0000
Subject: Bug #69224 [Dup]: Fileinfo tries to allocate huge amounts of memory for some text files
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Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69224&edit=1

 ID:                 69224
 Updated by:         ab@php.net
 Reported by:        john at zerocrates dot org
 Summary:            Fileinfo tries to allocate huge amounts of memory
                     for some text files
 Status:             Duplicate
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            Filesystem function related
 Operating System:   Linux
 PHP Version:        5.6.6
 Assigned To:        ab
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

@nmenciere I cannot reproduce it with the current 5.6 dev tree with the reproduce case linked here.
If you think this or similar bug is present, please open a new ticket and post your reproduce case.

Thanks.


Previous Comments:
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[2015-11-09 20:24:30] nmenciere at sportarchive dot tv

Hi,

What is the update on this bug?
Because it looks like in 5.6.15 the bug still exists. 

thanks

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[2015-03-12 07:11:11] ab@php.net

Yeah, this is the same issue. A patch for pre master is attached to the sec bug and waits to be
merged.

Thanks for checking, guys.

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[2015-03-12 04:22:34] laruence@php.net

this is a knew issue, as I remebered welting said about considering update libmagic to fix this.

@welting, any comments?

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[2015-03-11 20:30:36] aharvey@php.net

Pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug #68819 — can someone with security access check that,
please?

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[2015-03-11 20:29:19] john at zerocrates dot org

Just to clarify, the test file "test.csv" is only 28 kilobytes, nowhere near the memory
limit or the requested allocation size.

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