# valgrind reports a problem in ext/session/tests/session_decode_error2.phpt

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- Started by Antony Dovgal on 2008-04-23T14:56:01+00:00
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## #37205 — Antony Dovgal — 2008-04-23T14:56:01+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/37205#37205

Just a minor heads up.

There seem to be a problem in the unserializer discovered with 
help of ext/session/tests/session_decode_error2.phpt (see below).

I don't know this part of the code good enough to fix it, 
so whoever does - please take a look at it.
Thanks.

==18510== Invalid read of size 1
==18510==    at 0x7C16C2: php_var_unserialize (var_unserializer.c:514)
==18510==    by 0x7C3C04: process_nested_data (var_unserializer.re:281)
==18510==    by 0x7C2230: php_var_unserialize (var_unserializer.re:565)
==18510==    by 0x6483B9: ps_srlzr_decode_php (session.c:588)
==18510==    by 0x648B7A: php_session_decode (session.c:654)
==18510==    by 0x64E575: zif_session_decode (session.c:1802)
==18510==    by 0x8B2987: zend_do_fcall_common_helper_SPEC (zend_vm_execute.h:189)
==18510==    by 0x8B8100: ZEND_DO_FCALL_SPEC_CONST_HANDLER (zend_vm_execute.h:1399)
==18510==    by 0x8B2242: execute (zend_vm_execute.h:91)
==18510==    by 0x883710: zend_execute_scripts (zend.c:1192)
==18510==    by 0x80DF5E: php_execute_script (main.c:2077)
==18510==    by 0x924FC5: main (php_cli.c:1139)
==18510==  Address 0x919d45e is 0 bytes after a block of size 14 alloc'd
==18510==    at 0x4C22DAB: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
==18510==    by 0x85EA7F: _emalloc (zend_alloc.c:2281)
==18510==    by 0x85EFD7: _estrndup (zend_alloc.c:2423)
==18510==    by 0x78CF07: zif_substr (string.c:2213)
==18510==    by 0x8B2987: zend_do_fcall_common_helper_SPEC (zend_vm_execute.h:189)
==18510==    by 0x8B8100: ZEND_DO_FCALL_SPEC_CONST_HANDLER (zend_vm_execute.h:1399)
==18510==    by 0x8B2242: execute (zend_vm_execute.h:91)
==18510==    by 0x883710: zend_execute_scripts (zend.c:1192)
==18510==    by 0x80DF5E: php_execute_script (main.c:2077)
==18510==    by 0x924FC5: main (php_cli.c:1139)


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Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal