PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out

(php.net)

153 points | by timvdalen 29 minutes ago

16 comments

  • majewsky 2 minutes ago
    > out-of-memory handling can interrupt PHP while internal request data is only partially initialized. Request cleanup may then treat the invalid data as valid.

    If only we could come up with a way to manage memory automatically. Alas, one can only dream.

  • imzadi 12 minutes ago
    FML. Can't get in to update our servers because of MFA and our director, who gets the codes, isn't in
    • bartread 6 minutes ago
      Great example of performative enterprise security practice that contributes to degraded security posture, I suppose. Best of luck.
  • janmo 9 minutes ago
    Still no release for Ubuntu... They are already half an hour late. Debian got the patch almost immediately...
    • tomkarho 1 minute ago
      Ubuntu probably started working on a rust based replacement instead: rphp.
    • dmtroyer 6 minutes ago
      if it makes you feel any better, the official dockerhub images aren't ready yet either.
      • b112 1 minute ago
        If you mean docker official images, it's just the "community" maintaining it, eg "some dudes". By no means should you consider it a mechanism to get timely security updates, I've seen horrible lag on that before.

        Most of docker is like this. Images provided by volunteers, and not related to the project. Using docker images you don't maintain yourself, and at least don't upgrade yourself, is not the best recipe for security.

        (It's pretty trivial to build your own)

      • janmo 5 minutes ago
        They had almost a full day to prepare for this...
    • b112 5 minutes ago
      Debian has had the patch for days, as have other main distros, and tested and prepared the release. That's why it was instant.

      Unclear why Ubuntu is lagging.

  • andix 22 minutes ago
    Does anyone know the ETA on the official php:* docker images? I think they only released patched 8.6 RC containers for now.
    • jhogervorst 21 minutes ago
      The PR with the update is here: https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1694

      Looks like we need to be patient:

      > Why is this not merged yet?

      > I'm not a maintainer and can not merge this. Please wait until a maintainer has come around to look into this.

      > This is merged, but I cannot find the image?

      > After this PR has been merged, more steps are to be taken, including an upstream merge on docker-library/official-images and subsequent image builds. For a full description of the timeline, please refer to docker-library/faq#an-images-source-changed-in-git-now-what.

      • dmtroyer 12 minutes ago
        one of the more entertaining PRs I've seen
    • rocky_raccoon 21 minutes ago
      How about the Ondrej PPA repos for Ubuntu?
  • gslepak 5 minutes ago
    If you're tired of having to upgrade Wordpress, point your agent at this tutorial:

    https://blog.okturtles.org/2024/10/convert-wordpress-to-stat...

  • TekMol 16 minutes ago
    Why is the description of "RCE via OOM corruption" mentioning all these settings like memory_limit, post_max_size, max_input_nesting_level etc under "Mitigation" but not blocking multipart requests? Isn't that a solution?

    The description of the vurnurability "Several multipart parsing problems" makes it sound like it is?

  • pier25 6 minutes ago
    Apparently about 40% of PHP apps are still on PHP 7 and 5...
    • kps 3 minutes ago
      I see Debian has packages.

      5.6.40-104+0~20261021.134+debian12~1.gbp7401dd

      7.4.33-31+0~20261021.121+debian12~1.gbpe9c428

  • nairboon 19 minutes ago
    A bit too early for the announced coordinated release, no?
    • cholmon 16 minutes ago
      Their earlier comment said

      > We reserve the right to release earlier should details of either vulnerability become public, or should evidence of active exploitation appear in the wild.

      https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-20-1

      • nairboon 12 minutes ago
        Good point, at least now Debian has shipped the patched packages.
    • kps 10 minutes ago
      Two minutes before the announced 1400UTC? Or have I forgotten how to math?
  • dataflow 17 minutes ago
    Is PHP 7 essentially going to be dead and unusable for everyone then? Or will it get fixes?
    • guffins 7 minutes ago
      PHP 7 hasn’t received an update since 2022 when it went EOL.

      EDIT: looks like there are backports though

    • kps 9 minutes ago
      Debian has a new build of 7.4 at least.
    • Operyl 9 minutes ago
      There are backports already.
  • janmo 20 minutes ago
    apt-get update + apt-get upgrade fixes it on Debian, but not on Ubuntu for now
  • joecool1029 16 minutes ago
    Gentoo has it updated.
  • ramesh31 15 minutes ago
    PHP runs literally half the web. Half the web will not apply this patch in any reasonable amount of time (a huge portion will never). This is going to be absolutely catastrophic.
    • xyst 10 minutes ago
      So if I wanted to build a botnet, then it would be very easy ;).

      Infiltrate vulnerable PHP sites. Install backdoor(s). Secure root access. Patch PHP to lock out script kiddies. Let it sit dormant until you need to launch attack

      • ramesh31 2 minutes ago
        Indeed this is undoubtedly happening as we speak to untold millions of forgotten sites.
  • baggy_trough 20 minutes ago
    They bundled the fixes with a regular bugfix release, looks like.
  • fsflover 21 minutes ago
    Earlier submission with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180873
  • calvinmorrison 10 minutes ago
    debian package WHEN
  • EGreg 9 minutes ago
    For anyone who can't patch their PHP for some reason, here is a proxy that eliminates the threat for you -- it's open source, you can add it to your servers:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180987

    https://github.com/Qbix/proxy -- open source MIT licensed, I made github actions compile it as a Cosmopolitan binary so it can work across many operating systems (thanks Justine)

    I wrote it so I could deploy it myself on our old nginx + php-fpm setups, thought I would share. It should work with all top servers (nginx, apache, caddy etc)

    • Shank 3 minutes ago
      I really do not think anyone should trust a vibe coded repo that launched 1 minute ago as a viable defense for any service.