Comment by janmo
16 hours ago
They should have shut up, released a new stealth PHP version and told everyone to update ASAP. They gave way to many details ahead allowing some AI agents to find the vulnerability within half an hour...
16 hours ago
They should have shut up, released a new stealth PHP version and told everyone to update ASAP. They gave way to many details ahead allowing some AI agents to find the vulnerability within half an hour...
The update was withheld because releasing it without notifying major providers and distros would turn it into the same race, with ai having a release is the same thing as a disclosure.
This would've worked if other people were able to shut up about it. Because its existence got leaked they posted the announcement
Thereby throwing everyone else who isn't deemed "worthy" under the bus
There is no functional difference between doing just an announcement and doing an announcement with a series of builds containing the patch while withholding the source code. You do understand that right?
A message as vague as "there is a major RCE somewhere in this entire programming language" is usually pretty safe. We'll see how the details actually got out in this situation and whether the announcement caused it, but it still took a while. If you put out a patched build people will find and decompile the changes nearly instantly.
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A patched build is strictly more information, and you'd only need to cross correlate between the two.
At this point shipping the build already may have been the best option but not necessarily everyone is actually able to ship yet. And this is of course assuming the actual vulnerability is the same one as the PoCs that are being tried, and not something even nastier instead
That doesn’t work anymore because LLMs are scanning the diffs to spot security fixes and can turn it in to a PoC as soon as the commit goes public.
Just prompt inject them with a one line comment in the fix