PHP Foundation Admits ‘Structural Failure’ Delayed Security Fix
The foundation said the delay stemmed from decision-making problems and limited staff as it rushed out fixes for two critical PHP flaws.
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The PHP Foundation admitted internal failures delayed a critical security fix for two years, as websites around the world went offline out of precaution on Wednesday.
The security vulnerability in PHP that forced countless organizations at home and abroad to take their websites offline today had been known to the PHP Foundation for years, the…
"A structural failure": the PHP Foundation on a two-year delay
The PHP Foundation has given an unusually frank account of the emergency behind this week’s patches. It said it had found one of the two critical flaws two years ago, in 2024. Then it spent months unable to agree on how to repair it. The admission came in a blog post from the Foundation on […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A solution for a vulnerability in the PHP programming language that was recently discovered took a long time to materialize. That delay was a “structural failure,” says the foundation behind the programming language. The PHP Foundation reports that as early as 2024, there was a suspicion that a specific vulnerability could be exploited. However, work on a fix repeatedly stalled due to a lack of consensus within the PHP security team regarding th…
This is for nardos, sysadmins and some occasional that has its own server on the web. As many know, although I know that the vast majority does not, 70% of the Internet works thanks to PHP. Hated, mistreated, but always faithful, PHP is the engine of this blog for 24 years and last night they had announced that there was a patch coming for a vulnerability (two in reality) of category 9.8 that were basically the "apocalypse" if they did not patch…
A solution for a vulnerability in the PHP programming language that crippled part of the internet on Wednesday was a long time coming. That delay was the result of a ‘structural failure’, says the foundation behind the programming language. The PHP Foundation is deeply apologetic.
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