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UBSan: member access within null pointer of type 'zend_object' in ext/standard/var.c:185 via var_dump() #21024
Description
Description
The following code:
<?php
set_error_handler(function ($errno, $errstr) {
global $b;
$b = null;
});
$b = &$a;
class Bar {
public function __debugInfo() {
}
}
$b = new Bar;
var_dump(get_defined_vars());Resulted in this output:
/home/phpfuzz/WorkSpace/FusionFuzzLoop/projects/php/php-src/ext/standard/var.c:185:17: runtime error: member access within null pointer of type 'zend_object' (aka 'struct _zend_object')
SUMMARY: UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer: undefined-behavior /home/phpfuzz/WorkSpace/FusionFuzzLoop/projects/php/php-src/ext/standard/var.c:185:17 in
To reproduce:
./php-src/sapi/cli/php ./test.php
Commit:
fb5d4784fe56ffd1ac11b227f7859e1f37d0207c
Configurations:
CC="clang-12" CXX="clang++-12" CFLAGS="-DZEND_VERIFY_TYPE_INFERENCE" CXXFLAGS="-DZEND_VERIFY_TYPE_INFERENCE" ./configure --enable-debug --enable-address-sanitizer --enable-undefined-sanitizer --enable-re2c-cgoto --enable-fpm --enable-litespeed --enable-phpdbg-debug --enable-zts --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-dba --enable-dl-test --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-gd --enable-gd-jis-conv --enable-mbstring --enable-pcntl --enable-shmop --enable-soap --enable-sockets --enable-sysvmsg --enable-zend-test --with-zlib --with-bz2 --with-curl --with-enchant --with-gettext --with-gmp --with-mhash --with-ldap --with-libedit --with-readline --with-snmp --with-sodium --with-xsl --with-zip --with-mysqli --with-pdo-mysql --with-pdo-pgsql --with-pgsql --with-sqlite3 --with-pdo-sqlite --with-webp --with-jpeg --with-freetype --enable-sigchild --with-readline --with-pcre-jit --with-iconv
Operating System:
Ubuntu 20.04 Host, Docker 0599jiangyc/flowfusion:latest
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PHP Version
nightly
Operating System
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Activity
iluuu1994 commentedon Jan 24, 2026
Another variant of GH-20018. @YuanchengJiang I think at this point it might make sense to put
set_error_handler()on the fuzzer ignore list. We did the same with OSS-Fuzz some months ago. #19183YuanchengJiang commentedon Jan 25, 2026
@iluuu1994 sure! Thanks for it. Sorry for the noise
Keep dumped objects alive across __debugInfo() and property hooks
Keep the object alive across jsonSerialize() in json_encode()
Keep dumped objects alive across __debugInfo() and property hooks
Keep the object alive across jsonSerialize() in json_encode()
Keep the object alive across jsonSerialize() in json_encode() (#22469)