PHP, security vulnerabilities
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As a casual internet user, you might be wondering what exactly the barrage of jargon like “RCE via OOM corruption” means, how concerned you should be, and how exactly a vulnerability this severe flew under the radar for so long.
Developers of the PHP programming language said a new version fixing two critical vulnerabilities was now live and strongly encouraged users to update immediately.
By Leo Marchandon Oct 21 (Reuters) - Government websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday as operators raced to patch two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, one of the most widely used programming languages on the web.
The Elections B.C. website is among numerous sites that were taken offline Wednesday after vulnerabilities were found in a programming language.
The FBI’s cyber division warned the vulnerabilities could allow malicious actors to remotely execute code in the programming language, PHP, which powers websites and web applications. That raised the risk of sensitive data and networks being compromised,
Two critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws dubbed "PHP2Shell" have hit the core PHP programming language, triggering emergency warnings from global cybersecurity agencies.