Today’s PHP Security Release, and How We’re Strengthening PHP Security (PHP Foundation)

The PHP Foundation has put out a blog entry explaining how the vulnerabilities disclosed today came about and why they took so long to fix. To fix the OOM problem, the PHP security team developed several competing approaches, but each came with its own trade-offs: backward compatibility breaks, new denial-of-service potential, or requiring changes to many third-party extensions which seemed impossible to coordinate. The PHP security team, operating on consensus, struggled to choose between these and feared the repercussions of…

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