note 74648 deleted from function.preg-match by nlopess

Note Submitter: robert at kajic dot com ---- I have found a solution to a Segmentation fault caused by preg_match. Please keep in mind I have not done any extensive testing to confirm this solution indeed is a general one but it may prove valuable to someone. Here is the code that caused the fault for me: <?php $correctsyntax = preg_match('/^(?:\((?:\x27[^\x27]*\x27,){5}\x27[^\x27]{32}\x27,\x27' . $userid . '\x27\),)+$/u', $sqldata); ?> At first I was using Php 5.2.0 and when I upgraded to Php 5.2.1 the Segmentation fault persisted. I then upgraded PCRE from 6.7 to 7.0 which actually got rid of the Segmentation fault. I can't be sure it was solely the upgrade of PCRE that fixed it all as I didn't try upgrading PCRE without upgrading Php. I.e. it could be the combined upgrade that did the trick. By the way, all of this happened on a LAMP machine. I must add I have another machine (WAMP) with Php 5.2.1 and PCRE 6.7 that does NOT crash on the code above. I am not quite sure how to interpret that as I would expect it to crash just as it did on the LAMP machine. /Robert Kajic