PHP will handle session cookies with an empty values as an E_WARNING error. ([php/#68063](https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68063))
ownCloud sets the cookie to an empty value in case the session expires, it however after this starts a new session. Due to potential race conditions this can in unlikely cases lead to the fact that the session never gets restarted and the user is left with an empty cookie. PHP tries then to use the empty cookie which makes the instance not usable.
To work around any race condition we now tell PHP to explicitly delete the value which can be done by using `null` as value, PHP will then send a cookie with the value "deleted". Also theepiration has been set to -1.
When an empty string is used as cookie path PHP will assign the current directory as cookie path.
This means when an user had installed an ownCloud under "/", which is mapped to an empty string in \OC::$WEBROOT, and accessed it the cookie was set to values such as "/index.php/apps/files" since the web browser assumed this to be a directory. This means that multiple encryption cookies were set for the same domain resulting in potential havoc.
With this patch the path will be set to "/" in case an empty web root is installed which makes the cookie accessible to the whole domain.
To test this setup multiple ownCloud instances on the same domain under different ports and have both installed under "/", then try to login in both of it and previously this can in some cases lead to a lockout of the user.
Note that this affects the cookies that the browsers do sent and thus to test this you need to clear all cookies from your browser previously. I consider this an acceptable behaviour for now since this code is only in master.
Fixes https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/18919
Lukas Reschke
Morris Jobke
Phil Davis
Joas Schilling
Jenkins for ownCloud
Thomas Müller
cetra3
Jörn Friedrich Dreyer
Robin Appelman