r/technology • u/Radio_TVGuy • 12h ago

Security New PHP vulnerability means the Internet will have a very rough couple of days

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/10/21/new-php-vulnerability-means-the-internet-will-have-a-very-rough-couple-of-days
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u/xFlumel_ 10h ago

For context, that means any version released between 2004 and yesterday

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u/DogsRNice 9h ago

The people who run websites that haven't been updated since 2003 are probably feeling really good now

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u/red286 4h ago

That'd be me!

I actually started panicking when I first saw these reports because I am stuck on an ancient version of PHP due to legacy hardware and OS. I've been working on reworking everything to run under the latest version of PHP, but it's slow going, and there was no way I'd be able to get the new version out by tomorrow.

Then I saw that it affects versions 5.4 through 8.5.11.

Which makes me kinda glad I'm stuck on 5.3.2.

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u/pittaxx 3h ago

Well, your systems are only missing 23 years of security patches. I'm sure you're fine...

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u/ToiletSeatFoamRoller 2h ago

Risk’s gotta start going down somewhere between a day 1 and day 8,395 exploit right? /s