Hi all,
I updated from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 and a problem with the captcha arised. I debugged my code and still my application was not loading.
So i went to the System/Helpers/Captcha Helper file where I noticed a difference in the 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 Captcha Helper files. There are three "if (empty($word))" statements in the 3.0.3 captcha helper file.
Now i know once a $word is set it won't go to the other if statements but the
second if statement is what is breaking my application:
Code:
if (empty($word))
{
// Nobody will have a larger character pool than
// 256 characters, but let's handle it just in case ...
//
// No, I do not care that the fallback to mt_rand() can
// handle it; if you trigger this, you're very obviously
// trying to break it. -- Narf
if ($pool_length > 256)
{
return FALSE;
}
// We'll try using the operating system's PRNG first,
// which we can access through CI_Security::get_random_bytes()
$security = get_instance()->security;
// To avoid numerous get_random_bytes() calls, we'll
// just try fetching as much bytes as we need at once.
if (($bytes = $security->get_random_bytes($pool_length)) !== FALSE)
{
$byte_index = $word_index = 0;
while ($word_index < $word_length)
{
if (($rand_index = unpack('C', $bytes[$byte_index++])) > $rand_max)
{
// Was this the last byte we have?
// If so, try to fetch more.
if ($byte_index === $pool_length)
{
// No failures should be possible if
// the first get_random_bytes() call
// didn't return FALSE, but still ...
for ($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++)
{
if (($bytes = $security->get_random_bytes($pool_length)) === FALSE)
{
continue;
}
$byte_index = 0;
break;
}
if ($bytes === FALSE)
{
// Sadly, this means fallback to mt_rand()
$word = '';
break;
}
}
continue;
}
$word .= $pool[$rand_index];
$word_index++;
}
}
}
I commented our the piece of code above and my application worked fine.
