password verification

A subtle bug in PHP’s password verification logic — tracked as CVE‑2024‑3096 — let an attacker gain account access in a corner case: if a stored password hash begins with a NUL (0x00) byte, calling password_verify() with a blank password could return true. Microsoft’s Security Response Center...

I am not able to connect to BSNL 3G using standard windows dialer and not even through CiDial but only working through Mobile partner. I had faced this earlier but that was another machine, another OS. It stops at the verifying password screen and then immediately disconnects and again...