CVE-2023-54178 Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.326-245.539.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-PERFDEBUGINFO-15323587
  • published20 Feb 2026
  • disclosed30 Dec 2025

Introduced: 30 Dec 2025

CVE-2023-54178  (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:

of: unittest: fix null pointer dereferencing in of_unittest_find_node_by_name()

when kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(), name or full_name will be NULL, strcmp() will cause null pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1