Emergency Patches Pushed for Flash, PHP

06.05.2012

Of course, devices running Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, don't have to worry about the Flash flaw either because their devices .

Earlier in the week, a security flaw in the PHP scripting language, which the researchers at Eindbazen had been sitting on for months, was published to the Internet. According to the researchers "someone" mistakenly marked an internal document on the bug "public" and posted it to Reddit.

The flaw, which affects servers configured to run in CGI mode, could be exploited to expose the source code of applications at a website or to enable the execution of a hacker's code at the site.

The revelation prodded the PHP Group to push a fix out immediately. Problem was, the fix contained a bug that made the remedy practically ineffective.

That's not the first time that's happened. When the group fixed a in PHP in January, they that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code at a site.