Michal Čihař - Weekly phpMyAdmin contributions 2016-W25

Weekly phpMyAdmin contributions 2016-W25

As you could see from the release news it has been quite busy week in terms of fixing security issues. It has actually started just after announcement of security audit funded by Mozilla SOS Fund. It seems this is best way to attract attention security reviewers and we got really a lot of it.

So most of work in last two weeks was to deal with incoming security reports. Fortunately there is still nothing critical if you are not using ancient unpatched PHP version which is vulnerable to null termination of strings. This was quite hard work as immediately once we started to think about releasing version with fixes, new report came in and the process repeated several times. Fortunately we've made it to do three security releases (one for each supported branch) and it seems that we've not broken anything (at least there is no bug report indicating that).

Let's see what next weeks bring and how much security work will be there, but we definitely should focus on doing some reviews continuously rather than doing such one off actions.

On the other side in terms of handled public issues this week was really low volume: