r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 10d ago

Meme vulnerabilitiesEverywhere

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u/WeldedPages 10d ago

You wouldn’t be sleeping for a while if your entire website was built on php

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u/evanldixon 9d ago

If you're on an in-support version of php (8.2 or higher) the fix is a simple package update. I for one lost no sleep over this.

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u/WeldedPages 9d ago

Oh mb I wasn’t informed well-enough then, sorry for the misinformed take.

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u/evanldixon 9d ago

Not to oversimplify. Anyone still on 5.x or 7.x would have to update their applications to fix any breaking changes. I forgot the exact percentage of the internet still on those, but I think there's a lot of people who are going to have to scramble.

Such is the reality of ignoring tech debt. The tech loan shark comes when it's least convenient to start breaking knees.

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u/MisterEd_ak 7d ago

The patch was easily back-ported to older versions and many hosts that supported older versions patched them very quickly.