I came across the link via https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/117481600704689796
Last time I touched php it was ~20 years ago and maybe for a month. Could someone with actual php understanding weigh in?
Somehow, somewhere between the lines, my understanding was that there have been observances of the vuln being used in the wild before the 14 UTC. And that wasn’t from reading news sites
Dont use eval, period
If you use eval, you’re doing it wrong
That is my understanding too. But then when I was reading the article, there was a line somewhere that in order for the exploit to be successful, the server needs to be using eval
Literally the first thing indo after installing PHP is disabling the eval and assert functions.asssert() might might be useful in unit tests but thats about it, but eval is just plain evil and should never be used and if you do you are doing whatever you are doing, wrong.