#25117 [Opn->Csd]: MD5 checksum should be checked case-insensitive

ID: 25117 Updated by: cellog@php.net Reported By: christian at wenz dot org -Status: Open +Status: Closed Bug Type: PEAR related Operating System: any PHP Version: 4.3.3RC3 Assigned To: cellog New Comment: This bug has been fixed in CVS. In case this was a PHP problem, snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/. In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites in short time. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. thanks for the catch Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-17 09:48:21] christian at wenz dot org Description: ------------ the MD5 checksum in package.xml for a file only works with the PEAR installer when provided in lowercase. If capital letters (A-F) are used, a "bad checksum" warning is returned. Reason: md5_file() seems to return MD5 checksums in lowercase, however some MD5 calculation tools (e.g. the command line tool at http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/) return checksums in upper case. The "error" (if you can call it that way) is in line 276 of PEAR\Installer.php: if ($md5sum == $atts['md5sum']) { The following would eliminate the problem: if ($md5sum == strtolower($atts['md5sum'])) { ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25117&edit=1