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dangrossman on Jan 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP 5.3.3 hangs on numeric value 2.225073858507201...

It's going to be a very, very small subset of websites running PHP that could be hung...

- Must be one of the PHP 5.3.3 versions with the bug, where very very few web hosts are running such a recent version (5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 branches are much more common)

- Must be a 32-bit version, no bug in 64-bit

- The PHP program must try to use the input as a number

infinity on Jan 4, 2011 [–]

It seems to me that not only the PHP versions 5.3.3 are vulnerable. I have successfully crashed an older version of PHP 5.0.3.

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