Comment Re:Bypass the Pompousness (Score 2) 42
Ah... the good old days when you'd post a lengthy question on Stack Overflow and it would get downvoted so quickly that the person who voted clearly hadn't even had time to read it.
The PHP interpreter being exploited was written in C and C++.
And? As I said, the problem is not the language, C / C++, the problem is who wrote it: humans. If the C code is well written, the compiler makes a safe binary code.
It took that long to detect that it was successfully used.
It took that long just to find proof that the vulnerability had been successfully exploited. How many other systems had already been compromised before this one? We'll probably never know. (fixed that for me)
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