Bug #23443 user-defined variables can consume too much memory in the server
Submitted: 18 Oct 2006 23:03 Modified: 16 Jan 2007 6:41
Reporter: Shane Bester
Status: Closed
Category:Server: General Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:5.0.26, 4.1.22, 5.1.12, 4.0.27, 3.23.55 OS:Any (*)
Assigned to: Bugs System Target Version:
Tags: user defined variables, Memory, DoS, OOM, crash, bfsm_2006_11_02

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[19 Oct 2006 0:13] Shane Bester
typical out of memory crash provoked by this bug

Attachment: crash.txt (plain/text, text), 1.94 KiB.

[19 Oct 2006 0:14] Shane Bester
php app that will cause the above crash. simply 'group by' on 5 int's

Attachment: vars.php (application/octet-stream, text), 653 bytes.