[Bug 1287726] Re: Wrong evaluation whether json is valid or not

[Robie Basak]

@Mathew,

I see that you subscribed ~ubuntu-sponsors. But I don't think Nish
intended an upload yet. The SRU paperwork is not done yet, and there are
outstanding questions as to whether his proposed fix works.

I think this is awaiting someone affected to report back, so I'm marking
this Incomplete for Trusty and Wily for now, to make it clear that this
bug will not make progress until a reporter gets back to us. Affected
users: when you've reported success or failure, please change the bug
status back to New.

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Title:
  Wrong evaluation whether json is valid or not

Status in php-json package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in php-json source package in Trusty:
  Incomplete
Status in php-json source package in Wily:
  Incomplete
Status in php-json package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  # php -r 'var_dump(json_decode("\"\xff\""));'
  string(1) "�"

  Should be:

  # php -r 'var_dump(json_decode("\"\xff\""));'
  NULL

  
  Since a large (and growing) number of services use JSON for communication, it's quite bad.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: php5-json 1.3.2-2build1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-15.35-generic 3.13.5
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Mar  4 14:34:43 2014
  Ec2AMI: ami-8df705fa
  Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
  Ec2AvailabilityZone: eu-west-1b
  Ec2InstanceType: c3.xlarge
  Ec2Kernel: aki-52a34525
  Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: php-json
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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