From: sworddragon2 at aol dot com Operating system: Windows XP Professional SP3 PHP version: 5.3.0 PHP Bug Type: PCRE related Bug description: Apache restarts due to a regular expression
Description: ------------ I found a regular expression with which i can restart the apache service with the notification: [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting. I'm using Apache 2.2.11. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php preg_replace('#a((?:.|\n)*?)a#','a$1a','a11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111a'); ?> Expected result: ---------------- I expected that preg_replace() repaces the string. Actual result: -------------- Apache restarts with the above message an Firefox 3.5 tells me that the connection to the server was recessed. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48907&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48907&r=mysqlcfg