Yes, you read it right.
One of the popular programming languages PHP, was flawed with some multiple code execution issue.
But now it is fixed with its latest patch release rolled out by PHP maintainers.
The patch was released to fix multiple vulnerabilities which were resided in its core and bundled libraries.
The most risky one could have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and compromise targeted servers.
Even the failed attempts of exploitation could have resulted in DDoS ( Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.
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Out of these, a use-after-free code execution vulnerability, was assigned as CVE-2019-13224 which resides in Oniguruma.
A popular regular expression library that comes bundled with PHP and many other popular programming languages.
But the Good news is there has no report of any such damage yet.
So yes we can say that after updating to its latest patch you are safe.
source: www.techworm.net
