From:             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: any
PHP version:      4.2.0
PHP Bug Type:     Reproducible crash
Bug description:  Crash in shell_exec when popen fails (fix included)

(This web form will probably eat the diff, so you can also get it here:
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~sbrown/php-shell_exec-fix.diff)

If PHP is resource-starved and can't popen, the shell_exec function
detects the error but forgets to return, resulting in a NULL (FILE *)
being passed to fread on line 466 of exec.c (PHP 4.2.0) which causes a
crash.  This patch adds the missing RETURN_FALSE.

Steven Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


--- php-4.2.0/ext/standard/exec.c       Tue Dec 11 07:30:29 2001
+++ php-4.2.0-fixed/ext/standard/exec.c Wed Apr 24 15:39:56 2002
@@ -459,6 +459,7 @@
        if ((in=VCWD_POPEN(Z_STRVAL_PP(cmd), "r"))==NULL) {
 #endif
                php_error(E_WARNING, "Unable to execute '%s'", Z_STRVAL_PP(cmd));
+               RETURN_FALSE;
        }
        allocated_space = EXEC_INPUT_BUF;
        ret = (char *) emalloc(allocated_space);

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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16811&edit=1
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Fixed in CVS:        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16811&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16811&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:      http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16811&r=needtrace
Try newer version:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16811&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16811&r=support
Expected behavior:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16811&r=notwrong
Not enough info:     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16811&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16811&r=submittedtwice

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