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A web request can be small enough to pass the size check and still make PHP, the software doing work on a web server, run out of its allowed memory. The PHP project’s security advisory describes exactly that unpleasant little arrangement.

Running out should mean the request fails. In this flaw, an abrupt stop can leave unfinished internal information available for the cleanup code to use. That can go badly enough to let a remote attacker run their own code on the server. Quite an upgrade from having your request rejected.

The advisory reports a complete exploit delivered through an ordinary web connection against mod_php, which runs PHP inside the Apache web server. This is a demonstrated attack, not evidence of attacks happening out in the world; the supplied reports don’t establish that.…