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[LL84]

Hi. I'm running a slightly older version of Coppermine on a heavy traffic website and today apparently had someone run a crawler through the gallery, causing the PHP code to blow up and bring the gallery down and the website on the same server with it. The high activity/crawler seems to have just exposed some sort of a bug with Coppermine, so I'm curious if the latest version prevents this/has a fix for this? If so we will upgrade. Times have been crazy and we just haven't had the time to upgrade yet, but if the new version can prevent this from happening then I'll get right on it. I'm asking though because I don't want to waste time upgrading only to have the same thing happen again. Thank you so much for any help in this matter.

[phill104]

Upgrade now. There are some security holes in older versions that are actively being exploited right now so unless you want to be caught with your pants down upgrade this very second. It really isn't that hard and shouldn't take long.

As an aside, I saw an instance similar to yours last week. It turned out that a hacker had got in and set up an ebay phishing site on that server. The resulting load is what took down that server and the logs looked like the site was being excessively crawled at first glance.

[LL84]

Oh fantastic, lol. Will get right on it then. Thanks!