Oct 25, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 10 segments
A major PHP flaw puts servers everywhere at risk; so we hack ours. Meanwhile, open source helps debloat our smart TVs. Sponsored By: - Managed Nebula…
Well, here we are.
I think we're going to be probably going through this a bit more over the next year or two.
But this is the week the internet really froke out – freaked out.
I guess that's if you spell it with a P. Froked out about a PHP flaw that – Brought a lot of services that I use, probably a lot of websites that you guys use down for a day or two as they scrambled to solve some of this.
Yeah, you really kind of saw different.
It gives you a little bit an impure window into some of the operational posture of some of the things you can use.
I was surprised by some that took longer than I expected and some that did it very quick.
I knew something was up when I got a notification from Linode that they were just rolling with a reboot.
Just nothing you can do about it.
We have to do this.
They only do that when it's a critical one.
I guess that's pretty dang high.
A 9 is pretty dang high.
When you see that, it sort of sets off alarm bells.
And, of course, there's a lot of websites like WordPress and others that have been using PHP for a very, very long time.
And these are unauthenticated attacks and remote attacks.
So it's pretty much as bad as it gets.
Yeah, and you've got, you know, you can leak serious data out of the session in kind of both of these.
So that's not good.
So things like API keys can leak.
And in one of them in particular, depending on the configuration of the box, you might be able to get a shell.
Yeah.
Yes, you might.
It's kind of, you know, it was also a bit of a mess in terms of disclosure, various leaks, right? Like some of the CVE IDs, a wrong 10.0 score came out, a proof of concept video that went up and then got pulled.
Well, here we are.
I think we're going to be probably going through this a bit more over the next year or two.
But this is the week the internet really froke out – freaked out.
I guess that's if you spell it with a P. Froked out about a PHP flaw that – Brought a lot of services that I use, probably a lot of websites that you guys use down for a day or two as they scrambled to solve some of this.
Yeah, you really kind of saw different.
It gives you a little bit an impure window into some of the operational posture of some of the things you can use.
I was surprised by some that took longer than I expected and some that did it very quick.
I knew something was up when I got a notification from Linode that they were just rolling with a reboot.
Just nothing you can do about it.
We have to do this.
They only do that when it's a critical one.
I guess that's pretty dang high.
A 9 is pretty dang high.
When you see that, it sort of sets off alarm bells.
And, of course, there's a lot of websites like WordPress and others that have been using PHP for a very, very long time.
And these are unauthenticated attacks and remote attacks.
So it's pretty much as bad as it gets.
Yeah, and you've got, you know, you can leak serious data out of the session in kind of both of these.
So that's not good.
So things like API keys can leak.
And in one of them in particular, depending on the configuration of the box, you might be able to get a shell.
Yeah.
Yes, you might.
It's kind of, you know, it was also a bit of a mess in terms of disclosure, various leaks, right? Like some of the CVE IDs, a wrong 10.0 score came out, a proof of concept video that went up and then got pulled.
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