The PHP Group on Friday issued a new
version of the general-purpose scripting language to fix several potentially
serious security vulnerabilities.
The open-source PHP, a project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
described version 4.3.2 as a strongly recommended upgrade for all users
because of the "hazardous integer and buffer overflows" that have been
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PHP, which ships standard with a number of Web servers, including Red Hat
Linux, has been busy fixing security-related problems, including an upgrade in February to fix a bug in the
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The programming language has enjoyed phenomenal growth since its creation
in 1995 and can be found on more than 12 million domains, according to
statistics from Netcraft.
Mega portal Yahoo has switched from a proprietary
system written in C/C++ to PHP for its backend programming, putting the
language before a large enterprise audience.
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