Ah...
Upgraded after [link|http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-05.html|this]?
It seems like PHP is going through the security shakedown which seems to be part of maturing. Perl 5 did most of that in the 5.004 series. Perl 6 (under development) still faces that...
Cheers,
Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman