BIT-PHP-2026-17545 PHP on Windows: Reserved Device Names Are Not Rejected Before File/Stream I/O which can cause DoS

On Windows, PHP's filesystem and stream APIs do not reject reserved device names such as CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 to COM9, LPT1 to LPT9, CONIN$ and CONOUT$ when they appear as a component of a path. An attacker-controlled filename therefore reaches CreateFileW and opens a device instead of the...