Missing Initialization of Resource Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.309-231.529.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-PERFDEBUGINFO-15323138
  • published20 Feb 2026
  • disclosed30 Dec 2025

Introduced: 30 Dec 2025

CVE-2023-54317  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-909  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 perf-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.309-231.529.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-1987.

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:

dm flakey: don't corrupt the zero page

When we need to zero some range on a block device, the function __blkdev_issue_zero_pages submits a write bio with the bio vector pointing to the zero page. If we use dm-flakey with corrupt bio writes option, it will corrupt the content of the zero page which results in crashes of various userspace programs. Glibc assumes that memory returned by mmap is zeroed and it uses it for calloc implementation; if the newly mapped memory is not zeroed, calloc will return non-zeroed memory.

Fix this bug by testing if the page is equal to ZERO_PAGE(0) and avoiding the corruption in this case.

CVSS Base Scores

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