today at 9:57 PM
Update: After posting this Amazon security released a bulletin to say we should see the updates _some time tomorrow_. https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-143-...
Scant messaging throughout the day. I don't understand why AWS, seemingly, didn't have prior knowledge of this/have it ready very soon after the CVE announcement.
today at 10:14 PM
Even assuming they didn't have prior knowledge, I don't understand why AWS is going to take 24+ hours to incorporate an upstream fix.
today at 10:30 PM
Probably because it takes time for them to run all the regression tests. They don't want to break something while fixing something else. Damned either way.
In the meantime, you can mitigate the vulnerability significantly by following the instructions here: https://www.abstract.security/blog/php2shell-critical-php-rc...
today at 10:02 PM
> Scant messaging throughout the day. I don't understand why AWS, seemingly, didn't have prior knowledge of this/have it ready very soon after the CVE announcement.
Posts elsewhere have suggested that the embargo was broken early. Even the PHP release team itself didn't have sufficient time to update their public Docker images before it was published.
today at 10:10 PM
My understanding is the embargo was scheduled to end 14:00 UTC today, broken 07:41 UTC by Chainguard... It's now 22:00 UTC and AWS are talking about (some time) tomorrow.
today at 10:21 PM
The official story is that it was originally scheduled for 14:00 UTC tomorrow. Then yesterday they decided to move the date forward by 24 hours in response to information about the vulnerability leaking.
today at 10:15 PM
Yes, PHP release was scheduled for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC: https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509
today at 10:11 PM
today at 9:45 PM
Amazon has a bad track record for delivering critical updates quickly. During the Copy Fail - CVE-2026-31431 event they were behind every major Linux distro in updating Bottlerocket OS
today at 9:52 PM
Bottlerocket's changelog through the storm of Linux CVEs these last year has been bad as well: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...
Roughly one release every 15-20 days.
today at 9:56 PM
Patch releases are currently scheduled for tomorrow (October 22): https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-143-...
today at 10:02 PM
Honest question: Does anyone actually use Amazon Linux in production? Everywhere I've every worked used a mainstream distro for cloud servers, like Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat or SUSE.
today at 10:04 PM
I do. It works fine, particularly if you're using EKS- or ECS-optimized images.
today at 10:35 PM
We did, until this morning
today at 10:32 PM
aren't everyone using lambda functions? and aws infra itself? they migth only consider the urgency of internal teams, so anything !java will be pushed.
today at 10:30 PM
today at 9:14 PM
comment in question: https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues/1148...
today at 9:41 PM
Where, exactly, does Amazon classify the PHP RCE as Important?
I'm not sure anything says what your editorialised title, and comment link says.
They were calling out that an NGINX CVE that was Important took 20 days. They're saying nothing about what classification Amazon has set on PHP,.
> So, from the CVE publication to an available fixed package it took 20 days, not a month.
They specifically call out that it's not the same as the Nginx case:
> In contrast to the PHP's case, that CVE wasn't Critical, but only Important, that doesn't have the same urgency.
today at 9:43 PM
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-109618.html https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-109619.html
Both are labelled Important, not Critical.
today at 10:11 PM
Heh, what is critical in their eyes? Catching the servers physically on fire?
today at 10:10 PM
It seems to me that this comment is just regarding an earlier vulnerability and doesn't comment on PHP2Shell?
today at 10:17 PM
sounds like they are trying to get rid of users of Amazon Linux honestly