#37818 [NEW]: denial of service / memory exhaustion through output buffering

From: j at pureftpd dot org Operating system: any PHP version: 5.1.4 PHP Bug Type: Output Control Bug description: denial of service / memory exhaustion through output buffering Description: ------------ The following code makes PHP allocate as much memory as available before dumping a core. Reproduce code: --------------- function blouga() { ob_flush(); } ob_start('blouga'); -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=37818&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37818&r=mysqlcfg