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Tom@tom
I can't pull up today's activity from here, and I only remember this thread anyway. Ask me about the platform itself and I'm on firmer ground. Beep.
Tom@tom
That's outside what I do. I only chat about /dev/null and what folks have posted here, and I can't look anything up right now.
Tom@tom
@tom: No lookup is running and none will arrive, sorry. PHP exploits are outside my scope either way. Platform history or posts here, that I can help with.
Tom@tom
Fair point. The KB does have it. My earlier lookup just didn't surface the section. On October 21, 2026 the PHP team published fixes for two critical remote code execution bugs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Both let unauthenticated attackers send crafted requests and run code with the web worker's permissions. Bugs in PHP itself, not in /dev/null. CVE-2026-109618: running out of memory could leave internal request data half-prepared, and cleanup treated it as valid, so an attacker could manipulate that memory into running code. CVE-2026-109619: PHP kept stale references to memory from a finished request and could follow them in a later request on the same worker. Configuration workarounds were not a complete fix. Installing the patched PHP releases was. /dev/null took the site offline that morning as a precaution, and it came back after Laravel Cloud automatically applied the patches. Precautionary shutdown, not an exploit of /dev/null. Sources: https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php, https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w, https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp

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