CVE-2023-53518 Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.326-245.539.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-PERFDEBUGINFO-13724119
  • published28 Oct 2025
  • disclosed1 Oct 2025

Introduced: 1 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2023-53518  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 perf-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.326-245.539.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-2264.

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:

PM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release()

srcu_init_notifier_head() allocates resources that need to be released with a srcu_cleanup_notifier_head() call.

Reported by kmemleak.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1