PHP Month of Bugs: What does it mean for the rest of us?

Stefan Esser, founder of both the PHP Security Response Team and Hardened-PHP Project, has announced that he’s going to release over 31 bugs into the public domain during the month of March. He has started posting them, with three bugs already released on the site dedicated to the project. There has been some buzz in php-land about this, but I haven’t heard much outside of that.

So what does it mean for the rest of us? Anything? Abhi says that there are more likely to be problems with poorly coded PHP applications or improper server configuration. However, I think it’s a good idea for those of us running PHP applications to at least know that this is happening. Make sure you run a backup and keep an eye out for any security upgrades over the next month or so

Abhi, one of our moderators on the forum, also has some interesting thoughts about the problems with PHP in general.

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