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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ok, so we are talking about exploiting a Windows machine running a webserver serving PHP.

Just to calm people down, this doesn't mess with your computer just because it runs Windows and you happen to look at a php site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the tl;dr! These news sites really need to calm down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Only on Windows machines serving PHP using Chinese and Japanese language locales. And it's already been patches some time ago. So the impact is pretty limited, yet a lot of news is being reported like the world is ending.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Damn, I only skimmed the article, this is completely blown out of proportion