php: pin the shared interpreter to 8.5.12 for CVE-2026-109618/-109619
PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 were released on 2026-10-21 to fix two
critical vulnerabilities in PHP itself:
CVE-2026-109618 RCE via OOM corruption (GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w)
CVE-2026-109619 RCE via stale global state (GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp)
Both are unauthenticated RCE, CVSS v4.0 9.2, and PHP states that updating is
the only complete mitigation. The advisories name PHP-FPM as susceptible, so
the phpfpm-nextcloud and phpfpm-wordpress pools are in scope, not just the
Apache/mod_php configuration the public write-ups focus on.
nixpkgs bumped php85 in 81513f364091c759812f716cef3c175109d07342 on the same
day, but the revision this flake pins (7694c4f6b853, 2026-10-16) predates it
and still reports php85 8.5.11 — as does the pinned nixos-26.05 rev, so
`pkgs.stable` is not a way out of this either. Rather than pin the whole
nixpkgs input forward and freeze every other package, pin the interpreter:
• phpSecurityFloor records the first patched 8.5.x release.
• phpBase falls through to pkgs.php85 untouched when nixpkgs has caught up,
so the workaround retires itself; bump the floor only upward.
• `.override` rather than `overrideAttrs`: php85 is a makeOverridable
buildEnv, so version/phpSrc reach generic.nix while the default extension
set survives. overrideAttrs would keep the new source but drop `enabled`,
silently removing gd, intl, pdo_pgsql and the rest from both pools.
Nothing else changes: one interpreter, one extension set, one php.ini, and
every consumer (both FPM pools, the Nextcloud cron job, occ and wp-cli) still
resolves through config.sovran_systemsOS.phpPackage, so CLI and FPM stay in
lockstep at 8.5.12.
The source is php-8.5.12.tar.bz2 from php.net, hashed here. Hydra cannot have
this exact derivation, so the first rebuild compiles PHP plus bz2, apcu, redis,
imagick and memcached locally — a one-off cost, after which it is a store path
like any other and the configuration stays reproducible.
`nixos-rebuild switch` is enough: the phpfpm units change closure and restart,
no reboot and no staged generation required.
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#
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# To fall back to PHP 8.4 (nixpkgs' current default `pkgs.php`) change only
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# the `phpBase` line below.
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#
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# Security floor (October 2026):
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# CVE-2026-109618 (RCE via OOM corruption) and CVE-2026-109619 (RCE via
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# stale global state) are critical, unauthenticated flaws in PHP itself,
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# CVSS v4.0 9.2 each, fixed in 8.5.12 / 8.4.27 / 8.3.36 / 8.2.35 on
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# 2026-10-21. PHP-FPM is named as susceptible in both advisories, so the
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# pools below are in scope; updating is the only complete mitigation.
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# nixpkgs bumped php85 in 81513f364091c759812f716cef3c175109d07342 the same
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# day, but the nixpkgs revision this flake pins predates it, so the floor is
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# enforced here. Once flake.lock is at or past that commit the `else`
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# branch below stops being taken and can be deleted.
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let
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phpBase = pkgs.php85;
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# The first 8.5.x release that carries the fixes above. Bump only upward.
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phpSecurityFloor = "8.5.12";
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# php-8.5.12.tar.bz2, the same artifact and URL shape nixpkgs' own
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# generic.nix fetches. Verified against php.net on 2026-10-23.
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phpSourceHash = "sha256-/7YO3EN87WO1E35JhNs3moERxQBJxxFRDYuVgnfvwag=";
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# `.override` (not `overrideAttrs`) on purpose: php85 is a `makeOverridable`
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# buildEnv, so this threads `version`/`phpSrc` into generic.nix while
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# keeping the default extension set. `overrideAttrs` would keep the new
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# source but drop the extension set, which would silently strip gd, intl,
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# pdo_pgsql and friends out of the pools below.
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phpBase =
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if lib.versionAtLeast pkgs.php85.version phpSecurityFloor then
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pkgs.php85
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else
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pkgs.php85.override {
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version = phpSecurityFloor;
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phpSrc = pkgs.fetchurl {
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url = "https://www.php.net/distributions/php-${phpSecurityFloor}.tar.bz2";
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hash = phpSourceHash;
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};
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};
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custom-php = phpBase.buildEnv {
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# `enabled` is nixpkgs' default extension set. It already contains every
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