Posted by Khashayar Fereidani on Jun 20
PHP 8.5.7 FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED uninitialized read
Author: Khashayar Fereidani
Disclosure Date: 2026-06-18
Advisory: https://fereidani.com/php-857-filtersanitizeencoded-uninitialized-read
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Description
In ext/filter/sanitizing_filters.c, the php_filter_encode_url
function leaves the 255th byte (0xFF) of a transient array
uninitialized. An array of 256 bytes is populated...