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Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Ars Technica[^]:

    With PoC code available and active Internet scans, speed is of the essence.

    Good thing no one relies on that language anymore

    Just 40% of the internet or something like that

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      Ars Technica[^]:

      With PoC code available and active Internet scans, speed is of the essence.

      Good thing no one relies on that language anymore

      Just 40% of the internet or something like that

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      Peter_in_2780
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      Kent Sharkey wrote:

      Just 40% of the internet or something like that

      According to the article, this bug only affects PHP on Windows, so I suspect the real fraction is rather lower. It also seems to require certain East Asian locales to be active.

      Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

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        Kent Sharkey wrote:

        Just 40% of the internet or something like that

        According to the article, this bug only affects PHP on Windows, so I suspect the real fraction is rather lower. It also seems to require certain East Asian locales to be active.

        Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

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        Ah, there we go. Orders of magnitude less than. I feel safer already. :java:

        TTFN - Kent

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