Re: (ITS#4690) segfault in ldap_count_values() with PHP

[ando@sys-net.it]

madcoder@gmail.com wrote:
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You know, what makes me mad about PHP is that it internally uses 
something comparable to bervals, since the abstract type they use to 
wrap strings takes care of the length of the string itself; but in the 
LDAP extension, ldap_get_values() is used everywhere, and then strlen is 
run to compute the length of the values!  Why on earth don't they get 
ldap_get_values_len() should be used instead?  Somehow it got hardwired 
in people's brain that ldap_get_values_len() is only good for "binary" 
(that is, non-printable) stuff, and not for strings as well!

p.



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