IIRC, just about every upgrae has security fixes, you may be hard pressed to find an older version that doesn't have any big holes in it.
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 10:55, Ilia A. wrote: > On July 22, 2002 10:12 am, 1LT John W. Holmes wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > PHP Security Advisory: Vulnerability in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 > > > > [/snip] > > > > Looks like everyone will be using the new super globals, now... :) > > > > Well, I guess I'm still assuming that in a perfect world, people will > > upgrade because of security issues... > > > > ---John Holmes... > > As the Advisory suggests, the security fault affects only the 2 latest > versions of PHP, all the people running older PHPs are not affected, so > unless you've had the very latest stuff running this won't affect you and > there will be no need to upgrade. > If anything this will only convince people looking for 'stable' PHP to wait > even longer before upgrading their releases because of potential bugs such as > this one creeping up in 'new' releases. > > Ilia > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster, PittsburghLIVE.com 2002 EPpy Award Winner, Best Newspaper Website -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
