Re: Re: Problems with the fix for the BC break introduced in 5.4.29 and 5.5.13
| From: | Stas Malyshev | Date: | Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:58:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Problems with the fix for the BC break introduced in 5.4.29 and 5.5.13 | ||
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Hi!
> Wouldn't it be much easier to just revert for 5.4 and 5.5 and then
> patching
ReflectionClass#newInstanceWithoutConstructor() to
> just
> handle internal PHP classes as well?
We can not just handle internal PHP classes without calling their ctor.
That's the whole problem - for internal class, if ctor is not called,
you can get segfault on anything you do with the class.
> Is there a technical limitation for this?
> Are there security problems related to the patch that broke
> phpunit/doctrine? If not, can the patch simply be delayed and only
> applied to 5.6?
Right now we know this thing can produce segfaults. But running code on
unititialized data may be worse than that.
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