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New PHP vulnerability

22nd July 2002

Vulnerability found in PHP 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 involving HTTP POST requests. The PHP group have released PHP 4.2.2 which fixes this problem.

Posted 22nd July 2002 at 10:57 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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