[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29557: PHP Crash on Large Block of HTML

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#29557: PHP Crash on Large Block of HTML
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 Reporter:  MrBobDobolina  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Formatting     |     Version:  4.0
 Severity:  major          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  wptexturize    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by miqrogroove):

 Replying to [comment:6 SergeyBiryukov]:
 > Confirmed on 4.0. Fails on [source:tags/4.0/src/wp-
 includes/formatting.php#L227 this line] in `wptexturize()`.
 >
 > Increasing `pcre.backtrack_limit` to `pcre.backtrack_limit` didn't help.

 Increasing will actually make this worse.  I can get a crash on the beta
 version when the limit is greater than 50000.  We thought this was fixed,
 and I'm getting no errors in the 4.0 version so far.  Still looking.

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