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<p>This did the rounds of twitter last night, but incase your heads been in the sand...</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">If you use the popular PEAR PHP extension or have within the last 6 months, there is a possibility that a backdoor could have been introduced depending on how you installed the extension.<br /><br /> "... this does *not* affect the PEAR installer package itself... it affects the go-pear.phar executable that you would use to initially install the PEAR installer. Using the `pear` command to install various PEAR package is *not* affected."<br /><br /> There is still a lot of questions and PEAR PHP are in the process of investigating the full extent of what happened. Please check the references below for the latest updates.<br /><br /> Reference(s):<br /> ------------<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/pear" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://twitter.com/pear</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.pear.php.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://blog.pear.php.net/</a><br /><br /></div>
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<p>Kind Regards,</p>
<p>Noel Butler</p>
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