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Critical vulnerabilities in PHP take government websites offline in Europe
The flaws received a 9.2 severity score and allow unauthenticated remote code execution, leading operators to take pages offline while awaiting patches.
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The essentials of this story
- What happened
- Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP resulted in government website outages in Europe and global security alerts.
- Who is affected
- Website operators, government agencies, and server administrators using the PHP language.
- What changes
- Affected pages were proactively taken offline and security patches are being deployed to prevent remote hacks.
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Sources
- O que é o PHP e por que sites de governo saíram do ar na Europa? — InfoMoney
- O que é o PHP e por que sites de governo saíram do ar na Europa? — Folha de S.Paulo — em cima da hora