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David Mitchell wrote:
> As a user, I wanted to throw my two cents in. Our security administrator
> _is_ considering this particular fix to be critical, and has made it a
> required patch. While it's true that this particular fix is protecting
> against poorly written PHP scripts, it also appears to be the case that
> such poorly written software is fairly common and is being actively
> targeted. I also think that with this patch in PHP itself, there will be
> a lot less pressure for any of the packages which employ unsafe variable
> handling to actually get fixed. I know that I personally don't have a
> lot of say on the matter, but it would be nice if the patched version
> was released sooner. Thanks for your time.

You can always turn off register_globals in you php.ini.
register_globals = Off is a recommended setting anyway.

Regards,
  Christian Stadler
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