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▲ chinathrow 5 hours ago

> Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to address critical vulnerabilities in PHP, an open-source programming language used to run websites and web applications.

And they botched this as someone talked. To me this looks like they used this for a PR stunt and aimed for an RCE.

▲giancarlostoro 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If I understood the timeline correctly, there was an announcement made somewhere that an RCE would be announce w/ a patch, and the internet just scanned the entire codebase, they really fumbled this for the sake of having a PR post for OpenAI.

On the other hand, I don't mind AI companies doing this sort of thing, I'm sure a lot of our internet infrastructure could benefit from these sorts of fixes and changes.

▲ndiddy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

After the HN post came up, one security firm included "session.upload_progress.enabled", "session.use_strict_mode", and "php-fpm" in the SEO tags for their initial disclosure that a vulnerability existed. I imagine this was a good hint. https://web.archive.org/web/20261021005246/https://sansec.io... https://x.com/its5q/status/2112700519261032497

▲Maxious 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The somewhere was a loser on this very website https://daubois.dev/blog/cve-2026-109618-php2shell-rumors/

▲novafacing 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This post reads like pure slop to me

▲pinevale an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> And they botched this as someone talked. To me this looks like they used this for a PR stunt and aimed for an RCE.

This is a pretty constant theme in the infosec industry. The idea is that you want to do the "responsible" thing and let all the major, multi-billion-dollar companies patch first, so you form a secret club. But then, you share a very juicy, gossip-worthy thing with hundreds of people and ask them to sit on it for weeks. And guess what happens: they don't. Having worked for a big tech company, I've been involved on a couple of processes of this sort, and they all suffered leaks.

And rest assured, we'll learn nothing and try the same thing again next month or next year. Because what's the alternative? If you 0-day everyone, you get more hate mail, not less. It's all of sudden about you, not the vulnerable code. Microsoft or Cloudflare calls you irresponsible when asked for a PR statement, industry bloggers bully you, etc.

▲janmo 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They haven't even been able to release the patch on time. Ubuntu still hasn't it

▲dspillett 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Debian has, though only for current stable (updates for oldstable and oldoldstable apparently about to drop) which might imply they had no advanced access to the update so could not pre-test and release immediately upon the coordinated announcement.

▲nolok 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Sury is up for all versions too

▲rob 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not true. I was able to `aptitude update` and `aptitude full-upgrade` before 10:00 AM EST (9:50 AM) and received the new php8.* packages and upgraded fine.

▲cpncrunch 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Still no update for ubuntu 20.04 which has support via ESM, even though the patch is available for php 7.4. There are a lot of people using older servers which still have ESM support.

▲cpncrunch 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Patches have now landed for 20.04 and other earlier Ubuntu versions. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-109618#status

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▲kijin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Anyone using a non-default version from the semi-official PPA by Ondrej Sury is still waiting for an update.

The launchpad server is throwing 503 errors all over the place, so that's probably the reason for the delay. Sury's own repo has the fixes all right.

▲phit_ an hour ago | parent [-]

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▲hdgvhicv 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had an email from usn recently

▲unethical_ban 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

at 15:00 UTC, spot checking, Debian 13 has a fix, Ubuntu 26.04 has a fix with their own patch version number, Fedora does not.

Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8948-1

Fedora package status: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/php/php-fpm/

▲lee_ars 4 hours ago | parent [-]

PHP 8.5.4-0ubuntu1.5 (the fixed version for Ubuntu 26.04) has been downloadable for me via apt from security.ubuntu.com for about 30 minutes. Perhaps check to see that you're not using a different mirror?

▲unethical_ban 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You're correct, I was looking for the upstream patch number.

▲nicce 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wiz is owned by Google and Argon gets the main credits. So difficult to tell these days. But AI is obviously useful here.

Edit: was looking Wiz post when citation was from OpenAI

▲chinathrow 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Of course it's useful, but you can't absolutely not leak something as big as this.

▲anon1642 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I heard this was leaked several days early and that’s why folks seem to be on the back foot.

I’d press go too - if something this big was known to some but not all…

We’ll all get through together