[php-maint] Bug#573573: php5-xmlrpc: xmlrpc_decode_request generates segmentation fault on incorrect but valid xml requests

[Auke van Slooten]

Package: php5-xmlrpc
Version: 5.3.1-4
Severity: important

When decoding a xml-rpc request which is valid xml but doesn't have the
expected tags, xmlrpc_decode_request generates a segmentation fault. The
code below reproduces this:

<?php
$req = '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
   </methodCall>';
    $result = xmlrpc_decode_request( $req, $frop );
?>

xmlrpc_decode does work and simply returns NULL.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages php5-xmlrpc depends on:
ii  libapache2-mod-php5 [php 5.3.1-4         server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-5        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libxml2                  2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
ii  php5-cli [phpapi-2009062 5.3.1-4         command-line interpreter for the p
ii  php5-common              5.3.1-4         Common files for packages built fr

php5-xmlrpc recommends no packages.

php5-xmlrpc suggests no packages.

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