China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a warning about a serious PHP flaw and urged users to conduct inspections and upgrade their versions. Tencent-affiliated cloud services and Alibaba Group also issued warnings, while video platform Bilibili announced game maintenance.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a warning about a serious vulnerability in the programming language PHP, urging users to conduct inspections and upgrade immediately.
A cloud service operated by Tencent, one of China's major IT companies, urged customers to conduct inspections, saying that external attackers could cause memory corruption and gain complete control of servers.
Alibaba Group also issued a similar warning and urged action against the PHP vulnerability. In addition, Bilibili announced system maintenance for its games on the 21st in response to the issue.
These developments have also affected IT companies in China, and inspections and updates are reportedly progressing at various companies as part of their response to the PHP vulnerability.