Bug #72152 [NEW]: base64_decode $strict fails to detect null byte

From: vedad at kajtaz dot net Operating system: FreeBSD 10.1 PHP version: 7.0.6 Package: *URL Functions Bug Type: Bug Bug description:base64_decode $strict fails to detect null byte Description: ------------ As per documentation, base64_decode("\x0", true) base64_decode("\x0anything", true) shoud return FALSE. Instead, they return an empty string. Test script: --------------- var_export(base64_decode("\x0", true)); echo PHP_EOL; var_export(base64_decode("\x0anything", true)); Expected result: ---------------- false false Actual result: -------------- '' '' -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72152&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72152&r=mysqlcfg