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December 18, 2004
PHP group patches major flaws
The PHP group have released two critical updates of PHP, to prevent third-parties taking control of servers running the server programming language.
Version 4.3.10 and 5.0.3 of PHP were released by the software webdevelopers group, and according to CNet in Patches slapped on serious PHP flaws:
Arguably the most critical vulnerability is in a function used to compact data for storage. By exploiting the flaw, an attacker could take control of the Web server that runs a vulnerable version of the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessing (PHP), according to the Hardened-PHP group, which found the flaw.
Apparently, six other less critical security flaws were also identified and are listed here: Hardened-PHP Project - Multiple vulnerabilities within PHP 4/5.
Posted by at December 18, 2004 01:21 PM
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