Bug #1783

PHP crashes on big attachments

Details

Submitted	2004-07-04 09:58 UTC
From	tomee at kadu dot net
Status	Bogus
Package	Mail_Mime
PHP Version	4.3.7
OS	Linux 2.6
Roadmaps	(Not assigned)

Comments

[2004-07-04 09:58 UTC] tomee at kadu dot net

Description:
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I have e-mails stored in a database.
I must support huge attachments (up to 50M).
When I try to decode the e-mail, Apache2 simply closes the
connection, yielding the following error:
FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate 12544116 bytes

I figured that it takes a second to SELECT the message out
of db and assign it to a variable, but it simply crashes on
$st = Mail_mimeDecode::decode($params). I set the
parameters to include bodies, decode headers and decode
bodies, but setting the latter to false does not help.

Reproduce code:
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Just try to decode any message that is of 10M size, on a 466MHz machine with 160 Megs of ram.

Expected result:
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I expect it to return the goddamn object within a
reasonable period of time ;)

Actual result:
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FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate 12544116 bytes in
error_log and closed connection.