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Critical ALAS2023-2026-2042 3 CVEs

Critical: php8.4 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 58

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-bcmath 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-bcmath-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-cli 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-cli-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-common 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-common-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-dba 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-dba-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-dbg 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-dbg-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-debugsource 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-devel 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-embedded 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-embedded-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-enchant 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-enchant-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-ffi 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-ffi-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-fpm 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-fpm-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-gd 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-gd-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-gmp 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-gmp-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-intl 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-intl-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-ldap 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-ldap-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-mbstring 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-mbstring-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-modphp 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-modphp-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-mysqlnd 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-mysqlnd-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-odbc 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-odbc-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-opcache 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-opcache-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-pdo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-pdo-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-pgsql 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-pgsql-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-process 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-process-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-snmp 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-snmp-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-soap 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-soap-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-sodium 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-sodium-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-tidy 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-tidy-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-xml 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-xml-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-zip 0:8.4.24-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 php8.4-zip-debuginfo 0:8.4.24-1.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