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From d8f3aac707341374fa8bffc90b76c0c8b0f6d1b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niels Dossche <7771979+ndossche@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2025 13:23:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix GHSA-h96m-rvf9-jgm2
(cherry picked from commit 8b801151bd54b36aae4593ed6cfc096e8122b415)
(cherry picked from commit e4516e52979e8b67d9d35dfdbcc5dc7368263fa2)
(cherry picked from commit 84b83e2979bad57618528d4e669636117022f37c)
---
ext/standard/array.c | 7 ++++++-
.../tests/array/GHSA-h96m-rvf9-jgm2.phpt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 ext/standard/tests/array/GHSA-h96m-rvf9-jgm2.phpt
diff --git a/ext/standard/array.c b/ext/standard/array.c
index 09c3a9f256..fd92ef0e8d 100644
--- a/ext/standard/array.c
+++ b/ext/standard/array.c
@@ -3778,7 +3778,7 @@ static inline void php_array_merge_or_replace_wrapper(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETE
} else {
zval *src_entry;
HashTable *src, *dest;
- uint32_t count = 0;
+ uint64_t count = 0;
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
zval *arg = args + i;
@@ -3790,6 +3790,11 @@ static inline void php_array_merge_or_replace_wrapper(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETE
count += zend_hash_num_elements(Z_ARRVAL_P(arg));
}
+ if (UNEXPECTED(count >= HT_MAX_SIZE)) {
+ zend_throw_error(NULL, "The total number of elements must be lower than %u", HT_MAX_SIZE);
+ return;
+ }
+
arg = args;
src = Z_ARRVAL_P(arg);
/* copy first array */
diff --git a/ext/standard/tests/array/GHSA-h96m-rvf9-jgm2.phpt b/ext/standard/tests/array/GHSA-h96m-rvf9-jgm2.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2e3e85357e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/standard/tests/array/GHSA-h96m-rvf9-jgm2.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+--TEST--
+GHSA-h96m-rvf9-jgm2
+--FILE--
+<?php
+
+$power = 20; // Chosen to be well within a memory_limit
+$arr = range(0, 2**$power);
+try {
+ array_merge(...array_fill(0, 2**(32-$power), $arr));
+} catch (Error $e) {
+ echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
+}
+
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
+The total number of elements must be lower than %d
--
2.53.0
From 143f4339e80c13ffa1b11aae7f629807c9442edc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Remi Collet <remi@remirepo.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:48:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] NEWS
---
NEWS | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 342c184c30..464f4b55f4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
PHP NEWS
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+Backported from 8.1.34
+
+ . Fixed GHSA-h96m-rvf9-jgm2 (Heap buffer overflow in array_merge()).
+ (CVE-2025-14178) (ndossche)
+
Backported from 8.1.31
- CLI:
--
2.53.0
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