Memory Leak Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.276-211.499.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Memory Leak vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-PERFDEBUGINFO-10265128
  • published30 May 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025

Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

CVE-2022-49224  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 perf-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.276-211.499.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2569.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf-debuginfo package and not the perf-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add():

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1