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Critical ALAS2023-2026-2041 3 CVEs

Critical: php8.5 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 3, 2026 · Updated Aug 10, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-7260: Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9. CVE-2026-17544: Attacker-provided inputs to bccomp() could lead to an out-of-bounds write with stack and heap corruption in PHP versions from 8.4.* before 8.4.24 and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9. CVE-2026-17543: Improper escaping of backslashes in attacker-provided parameters would allow for trivial SQL injection in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

Fixed packages 56

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-bcmath 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-bcmath-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-cli 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-cli-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-common 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-common-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-dba 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-dba-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-dbg 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-dbg-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-debugsource 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-devel 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-embedded 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-embedded-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-enchant 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-enchant-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-ffi 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-ffi-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-fpm 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-fpm-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-gd 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-gd-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-gmp 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-gmp-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-intl 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-intl-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-ldap 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-ldap-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-mbstring 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-mbstring-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-modphp 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-modphp-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-mysqlnd 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-mysqlnd-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-odbc 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-odbc-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-pdo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-pdo-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-pgsql 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-pgsql-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-process 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-process-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-snmp 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-snmp-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-soap 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-soap-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-sodium 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-sodium-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-tidy 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-tidy-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-xml 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-xml-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-zip 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.5-zip-debuginfo 0:8.5.9-1.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 8.1
    CVE-2026-17543 Public exploit

    SQL injection in ext-pgsql via E'...' backslash breakout

    Improper escaping of backslashes in attacker-provided parameters would allow for trivial SQL injection in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

  • High 8.1
    CVE-2026-17544 Public exploit

    Out-of-bounds write in bccomp() via crafted operand and scale

    Attacker-provided inputs to bccomp() could lead to an out-of-bounds write with stack and heap corruption in PHP versions from 8.4.* before 8.4.24 and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

  • Medium 5.4

    Stack overflow in phar with circular symlinks

    Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-17543.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-17544.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-7260.html