A piece of code in PHP that bypasses memory limits and causes memory leak. Works on the latest php7.4 and php8.0 as of 26.12.2020
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<?php | |
ini_set('memory_limit', '1M'); | |
echo 'PHP7.4/PHP8.0 memory leak' . PHP_EOL; | |
echo 'Memory limit: ' . ini_get('memory_limit') . PHP_EOL; | |
echo 'PHP version ' . phpversion() . PHP_EOL; | |
// This code fragment triggers memory allocation error (as expected) | |
for ($i = 0; $i < 100000000; $i++) { | |
$arr[] = [$i => 'string-'. $i]; | |
} | |
// This code fragment bypasses memory limit and causes memory leak | |
// Looks like some sort of vulnerability in XML module | |
$sitemapDoc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8'); | |
$loc = htmlspecialchars('https://example.com/url/path/', ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); | |
for ($i = 0; $i < 100000000; $i++) { | |
$urlEl = $sitemapDoc->createElement('url'); | |
$urlEl->appendChild($sitemapDoc->createElement('loc', $loc)); | |
$sitemapDoc->appendChild($urlEl); | |
} |
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