php guild forums

[Flimgoblin]

If any of you have a guild forum or the like running on phpBB make sure you upgrade to 2.0.11 as soon as possible - there's a rather nasty exploit kicking about that lets someone wipe out your board.

If you upgrade to 2.0.11 it'll prevent it.

 

[Dweller]

More details on the worm can be found here: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/perlsantya.html

 

[old.Whoodoo]

https://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?t=44095

and

https://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?t=44091

 

[Flimgoblin]

some friends got hit by it last night thought people needed another reminder

(though we're now linking to another post that links to a barryforum that links to a post about forums... which beats the old record)

 

[old.Whoodoo]

Some people use PHPNuke, which also uses an old version of PhPBB, and are nto aware they may be vaunerable to attacks, so IMO its worth mentioning again.

Incidentally, any version of PHPNuke prior to 7.4 is also extreemly vaunerable. See http://phpnuke.org for updates.