Re: PHP Security Advisory: Vulnerability in PHP versions 4.2.0 and4.2.1

IIRC, just about every upgrae has security fixes, you may be hard pressed to find an older version that doesn't have any big holes in it. On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 10:55, Ilia A. wrote: > On July 22, 2002 10:12 am, 1LT John W. Holmes wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > PHP Security Advisory: Vulnerability in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 > > > > [/snip] > > > > Looks like everyone will be using the new super globals, now... :) > > > > Well, I guess I'm still assuming that in a perfect world, people will > > upgrade because of security issues... > > > > ---John Holmes... > > As the Advisory suggests, the security fault affects only the 2 latest > versions of PHP, all the people running older PHPs are not affected, so > unless you've had the very latest stuff running this won't affect you and > there will be no need to upgrade. > If anything this will only convince people looking for 'stable' PHP to wait > even longer before upgrading their releases because of potential bugs such as > this one creeping up in 'new' releases. > > Ilia > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster, PittsburghLIVE.com 2002 EPpy Award Winner, Best Newspaper Website