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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
The same regular expression with exactly the same input returns sometimes 
true and sometimes false!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run this PHP Script several times:
<?
echo ereg("^[A-Za-z0-9]+$", "abc")? 1: 0;
?>

Actual Results:  It sometimes returns 0, sometimes 1.

Expected Results:  It should *always* return 1!

Additional info:

This bug is very unclear to me, because only minor changes to the regular 
expression make the script work as expected.

The problem does not occur with the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression 
Functions (preg*).

As the bug also occurs in Apache's mod_rewrite, I think, it is not directy 
related to PHP, but a gerneral Linux problem. The following rewrite rule 
returns different results with exactly the same input:
RewriteCond	%{HTTP_HOST}	[a-z]

This bug is a security risk, because regular expressions will not always 
work as expected!

I use the newest rpms available via "up2date -uf".