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ext/dba: tcadb backend path allows injecting Tokyo Cabinet connection-string parameters (e.g. bnum) via unescaped '#' #24640

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ext/dba's tcadb backend concatenates the dba_open() path directly into Tokyo Cabinet's #key=value connection-string syntax with no escaping (ext/dba/dba_tcadb.c):

spprintf(&path_string, 0, "%s#mode=r", ZSTR_VAL(info->path));
...
tcadbopen(tcadb, path_string);

If the path an application passes to dba_open() contains an unescaped # (e.g. built from a user-influenceable component), an attacker can inject additional Tokyo Cabinet tuning parameters into the open call.

Confirmed, live PoC (--enable-dba --with-tcadb, libtokyocabinet-dev 1.4.48):

<?php
$db1 = dba_open('/tmp/test_normal.tcb', 'n', 'tcadb');
dba_close($db1);
// filesize('/tmp/test_normal.tcb') === 135680

$db2 = dba_open('/tmp/test_injected.tcb#bnum=100000000', 'n', 'tcadb');
dba_close($db2);
// filesize('/tmp/test_injected.tcb') === 402658048  (~384MB, ~3000x larger)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 402658048 Oct 23 15:32 /tmp/test_injected.tcb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    135680 Oct 23 15:32 /tmp/test_normal.tcb

Mechanism: on a create-mode open, PHP's own generic dispatcher (ext/dba/dba.c, php_stream_open_wrapper() on the literal path) creates a harmless 0-byte placeholder file at the literal injected name. Separately, Tokyo Cabinet's own tcadbopen() parses the string itself — splits on #, takes everything before the first # as the real path (a different file than the one PHP's generic layer touched), and applies every subsequent #key=value segment as a tuning parameter, including the injected bnum.

I also tested whether this could override the intended open mode (inject #mode=wct ahead of PHP's appended #mode=r for a DBA_READER open) — that specific path does not work: PHP's generic php_stream_open_wrapper() pre-check requires the literal full path (injected #... included) to already exist for reader-mode opens, so the call fails before reaching the tcadb-specific handler at all. The confirmed impact above is specific to create-mode opens.

Suggested fix: reject or escape # in the path before use in DBA_OPEN_FUNC(tcadb), same spirit as validating the path in other dba backends.

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