ID:               20467
 Comment by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         Sybase (dblib) related
 Operating System: Linux
 PHP Version:      4.2.3
 New Comment:

I found also another problem.
If NULL is returned (length == 0) the loop 
"while (*p == ' ') --p;"
can lead to a buffer underflow,
"while (p >= res_buf && *p == ' ') --p;"
fix the problem

freddy77


Previous Comments:
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[2002-11-17 13:34:54] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I forgot. To check the issue try:

#!/home/freddy/install/bin/php -q
<?php
$db_handle = sybase_connect("server","user","pass");
sybase_select_db("tempdb", $db_handle);
$db_result = sybase_query("select convert(varbinary,space(120))");
$res = sybase_fetch_row($db_result);
print "\nres=$res[0]\n";
print sybase_num_rows($db_result);
$db_result = sybase_query("select convert(numeric(18,2),1234.89)");
$res = sybase_fetch_row($db_result);
print "\nres=$res[0]\n";
print sybase_num_rows($db_result);
?>

freddy77

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[2002-11-17 13:31:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dbconvert convert binary -> char returning binary representation so
0x6789 (2 bytes) became '6789' (4 single byte characters)
When converting back to PHP (in ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c) you pass
the same size buffer leading to a buffer overflow.

Following patch fix problem. It also fix another problem (it remove
last characters from conversion) and avoid future possible buffer
overflows due to strange types (like UNIQUEIDs in MSSQL)

diff -r -u10 php-4.2.3/ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c
php-4.2.3mod/ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c
--- php-4.2.3/ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c        Wed Mar  6 16:59:42 2002
+++ php-4.2.3mod/ext/sybase/php_sybase_db.c     Sun Nov 17 20:08:31 2002
@@ -710,49 +710,51 @@
                /*case SYBFLT8:*/
                case SYBREAL: {
                        Z_DVAL_P(result) = (double) floatcol(offset);
                        Z_TYPE_P(result) = IS_DOUBLE;
                        break;
                }
                default: {
                        if (dbwillconvert(coltype(offset),SYBCHAR)) {
                                char *res_buf;
                                int res_length = dbdatlen(sybase_ptr->link,offset);
+                               int src_length = res_length;
                                register char *p;
                        
                                switch (coltype(offset)) {
                                        case SYBBINARY:
                                        case SYBVARBINARY:
+                                               res_length *= 2;
+                                               break;
                                        case SYBCHAR:
                                        case SYBVARCHAR:
                                        case SYBTEXT:
                                        case SYBIMAGE:
                                                break;
                                        default:
                                                /* take no chances, no telling how big 
the result would really
be */
                                                res_length += 20;
                                                break;
                                }
 
                                res_buf = (char *) emalloc(res_length+1);
                                memset(res_buf,' ',res_length+1);  /* XXX i'm sure 
there's a
better way
                                                                                
                          but i don't have sybase here to test
                                                                                
                          991105 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  */
-                               
dbconvert(NULL,coltype(offset),dbdata(sybase_ptr->link,offset),
res_length,SYBCHAR,res_buf,-1);
+                               
+dbconvert(NULL,coltype(offset),dbdata(sybase_ptr->link,offset),
src_length,SYBCHAR,res_buf,res_length);
                
                                /* get rid of trailing spaces */
                                p = res_buf + res_length;
-                               while (*p == ' ') {
+                               while (*p == ' ')
                                        p--;
-                                       res_length--;
-                               }
                                *(++p) = 0; /* put a trailing NULL */
+                               res_length = p - res_buf;
                
                                Z_STRLEN_P(result) = res_length;
                                Z_STRVAL_P(result) = res_buf;
                                Z_TYPE_P(result) = IS_STRING;
                        } else {
                                php_error(E_WARNING,"Sybase:  column %d has unknown 
data type
(%d)", offset, coltype(offset));
                                ZVAL_FALSE(result);
                        }
                }
        }

Frediano Ziglio



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