Mass hysteria, or something.

I came across the link via https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/117481600704689796

Last time I touched php it was ~20 years ago and maybe for a month. Could someone with actual php understanding weigh in?

Somehow, somewhere between the lines, my understanding was that there have been observances of the vuln being used in the wild before the 14 UTC. And that wasn’t from reading news sites

  • GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io
    3·
    1 hour ago

    I remember someone on hacker news saying they were able to dump the whole database from their server, I cannot know if that s true but I don’t think everybody panicked for nothing

  • stopforgettingit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    264·
    8 hours ago

    The bug is real, its exploitable but only if the server also has a very specific vulnerability in order for php to be exploited. Which kind of makes it a non exploit. And the author is backing that up by point out the php runs about 70% of the web and the exploit has been out for over 10 hours (when this was written), if this was a real “we are very fucked” bug, we would be hearing about all the fall out from this already and we have heard nothing.

    The (quite funny actually) take away here is that the “smoking gun” demos that prove this exploit show that the server vulnerability was specifically mimicked before the exploit test was run.

    • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      2 hours ago

      Thank you for coming my nerves, I have been seeing a lot of things on this some sensationalizing this as a big issue and some saying it was not really a big deal. I broke and went to see what of my homelab that really touched the WAN had php, I removed somethings and decided to risk it for someother things.

  • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago

    The PHP vulnerabilities (yes there is more than one) are relatively easy to exploit if you can fiddle with what requests your server receives (easy).

    The DNS exploit requires someone to figure out how to man-in-the-middle your connection. While that is trivial for governments, it is much less likely to be done by purely bad actors, simply for how hard “internet” integration is and how visible the problem ends up.

    Both are big problems, but only one of them is continually exploitable, as the DNS issues have been largely resolved even before the very public disclosure.