Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62577&edit=1
ID: 62577
Updated by: kalle@php.net
Reported by: ivan dot enderlin at hoa-project dot net
Summary: simplexml_load_file does not file if
libxml_disable_entity_loader(true)
-Status: Assigned
+Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: SimpleXML related
Operating System: All
PHP Version: master-Git-2012-07-16 (Git)
-Assigned To: rrichards
+Assigned To:
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
Previous Comments:
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[2016-10-17 13:32:58] cmb@php.net
Related To: Bug #73328
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[2016-10-03 20:22:58] gudang at gmail dot com
@rrichards When are you going to fix this 4 years issue?
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[2014-01-29 13:03:29] phofstetter at sensational dot ch
This bug causes libxml_disable_entity_loader(true); to also disable SoapClient - likely for the same
reason. Contrary to the other options, this one is bad though because there's no workaround
(asides of not using PHP's own SoapClient).
So as it stands now users either have to live with an annoying security hole when parsing untrusted
XML (which does happen at times) or with a defunct SOAP client plus the nice fopen wrappers not
working for all XML related functions.
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[2014-01-27 16:44:20] phofstetter at sensational dot ch
External entity loading in XML is problematic security-wise (see https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing
and for example http://www.ubercomp.com/posts/2014-01-16_facebook_remote_code_execution
where Facebook was hit by that).
It's generally advised to turn off external entity loading.
But because of this bug, turning that off also turns off *all* external file loading via libxml.
What we need IMHO is something that turns off loading files in response to parsing untrusted XML.
Requesting XML from an external source in itself isn't a problem.
If this current behaviour is intended, please consider adding a note to the documentation explaining
the case and telling users to use fopen (though that means that it's no longer possible to work
with a huge stream of XML data because libxml_disable_entity_loader() also disables
XmlReader::open()
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[2013-12-15 01:19:07] claudio dot mulas at lucla dot net
Finally i've found what's the problem on my website. Still not fixed? :(
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