[Wolves] An ode to all those who spoke ill of PHP last night...

[sparkes]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:57, fizzy wrote:
>  --- David Goodwin <david at openminds.co.uk> wrote: 
> > Well, assuming NASA keep their servers up to date
> > then it's likely that
> > there's an undiscovered bug in ph....p 
> > 
> > (which as you remember we all spoke very highly of
> > last night (regarding
> > it's consistant api etc etc ;) )
> 
> If someone has discovered flaws in ph-f-p scripts NASA
> use, or even in ph-f-p itself, I still don't see how
> this affects your kernel?
> 
the badly written scripts (not just a php problem) allowed the upload of
code that did the swedish chef thing on the linux kernel.

pretty much the same as the debian servers

> fizz
> 
sparkes

PS - swedeish chef (brk brk) the buffer overflow is in do_brk ;-)