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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-30741

html_to_text is pathologically slow with certain input involving <pre>

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    • Testing Instructions:
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      1. Place the attached script into the root of your Moodle site
      2. Run the attached script via a web browser
      3. The output should be:
        • without the patched code – the page will run for however long your PHP timeout is set to, and then display the conversion result for the first string and the second string without a converted result
        • with the patches code – the page will load and both strings will be converted from their HTML format into text and displayed on the page very quickly
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      Place the attached script into the root of your Moodle site Run the attached script via a web browser The output should be: without the patched code – the page will run for however long your PHP timeout is set to, and then display the conversion result for the first string and the second string without a converted result with the patches code – the page will load and both strings will be converted from their HTML format into text and displayed on the page very quickly
    • Affected Branches:
      MOODLE_20_STABLE, MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_22_STABLE, MOODLE_23_STABLE
    • Fixed Branches:
      MOODLE_20_STABLE, MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_22_STABLE
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    • Pull Master Branch:
      MDL-30741_master
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      Description

      The following string value from a quiz question was causing the convert_pre() method in _/lib/html2text.php to get stuck and never finish converting the string to a text representation:

      Consider the following function:<br /><pre style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);">void FillMeUp(char* in_string) {<br />  int i = 0;<br />  while (in_string[i] != '\0') {<br />    in_string[i] = 'X';<br />    i++;<br />  }<br />}</pre>What would happen if a non-terminated string were input to this function?<br /><br />

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            Assignee:
            jfilip Justin Filip
            Reporter:
            jfilip Justin Filip
            Peer reviewer:
            Tim Hunt
            Integrator:
            Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
            Tester:
            Ankit Agarwal
            Participants:
            Component watchers:
            Adrian Greeve, Jake Dallimore, Mathew May, Mihail Geshoski, Peter Dias, Amaia Anabitarte, Carlos Escobedo, Ferran Recio, Sara Arjona (@sarjona), Víctor Déniz Falcón, Tim Hunt, Andrew Nicols, Jun Pataleta, Michael Hawkins, Shamim Rezaie, Simey Lameze
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              Fix Release Date:
              9/Jan/12