Passing empty string to html_entity_decode makes Apache crash

Bug #21338	Passing empty string to html_entity_decode makes Apache crash
Submitted:	2003-01-02 08:56 UTC	Modified:	2003-01-02 13:50 UTC
From:	Michael dot Beer at bluewin dot ch	Assigned:
Status:	Closed	Package:	Reproducible crash
PHP Version:	4CVS-2003-01-02 (dev)	OS:	Windows 2000
Private report:	No	CVE-ID:	None

[2003-01-02 08:56 UTC] Michael dot Beer at bluewin dot ch

The following code makes Apache (2.0.43/Win2k SP3) crash:
<?php html_entity_decode(""); ?>

This happened with PHP 4.2.3, 4.3.0 and 4.4.0-dev (php4-win32-200301021130.zip).

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[2003-01-02 13:50 UTC] iliaa@php.net

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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