6 comments

  • hayd 22 minutes ago
    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.

    • edaemon 5 minutes ago
      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.
    • otterley 17 minutes ago
      > 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.

      • hayd 9 minutes ago
        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.
  • pier25 2 minutes ago
    sounds like they are trying to get rid of users of Amazon Linux honestly
  • mikeweiss 34 minutes ago
    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
  • otterley 23 minutes ago
    Patch releases are currently scheduled for tomorrow (October 22): https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-143-...
  • 80fj0348i 17 minutes ago
    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.
    • otterley 15 minutes ago
      I do. It works fine, particularly if you're using EKS- or ECS-optimized images.
  • hayd 1 hour ago
    • Twirrim 38 minutes ago
      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.

    • trgfdffd 9 minutes ago
      It seems to me that this comment is just regarding an earlier vulnerability and doesn't comment on PHP2Shell?